Big things are afoot at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, this country’s first museum and school of fine arts, very big things.
Current and Coming: Delayed Debuts in Greenwich
In Connecticut, the Greenwich Historical Society has finally been able to mount Life and Art: The Greenwich Paintings of John Henry Twachtman.
THE FLOWERING OF AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM IN GLOUCESTER
How Frank Duveneck fostered the rise of a new painting genre in the coastal Massachusetts town of Gloucester
Current and Coming: Andrew LaMar Hopkins at the Cabildo
The self-taught painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins has enjoyed a remarkably rapid rise to prominence in the contemporary art world.
Selections from 100 years of Antiques covers: Late Fall edition
A look back on 100 years of Antiques covers from the Late Fall
Dealer profile: A Connoisseur for All Seasons
ON ART DEALER AND COLLECTOR DEEDEE WIGMORE AND HER AESTHETIC AMBIDEXTERITY You could say that Deedee Wigmore is a time traveler, of sorts. At home, she dwells in the nineteenth century. The apartment she shares with her husband, philanthropist Barrie A. Wigmore, features a museum-worthy collection of American aesthetic movement furniture and ceramics, as well as paintings by artists of …
Forging Ahead
Artist of Iron Samuel Yellin and the Landmark Year 1922 The year 1922 has always seemed magical to me. Gertrude Stein published Geography and Plays; James Joyce issued Ulysses; and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land appeared. On the European continent, modernist works tested the boundaries of painting. Giorgio de Chirico painted Il figliol prodigo, Paul Klee created Twittering Machine, …
Current and Coming: Above and beyond at LACMA
Everyone is familiar with mid-century New York’s abstract expressionist scene; less so, perhaps, with the Transcendental Painting Group of the American Southwest…
First Against the Wall
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores the work of Diego Rivera in America at scales large and small
Current and Coming: Spanish Colonial Threads at the Blanton
You are what you wear? Studies of fashion play a key role in understanding historical social and cultural structures, as demonstrated by Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America, a current exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art.