Did you know that the color mauve, or, rather, the pigment, was discovered in 1856 by an eighteen year- old student experimenting with the hydrocarbons in coal tar from street lamps in an attempt to discover a cure for malaria?
Openings and Closings: January 6 to January 12
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Current and Coming: Kentucky Shakers at the Speed
The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, exhibition, Careful, Neat, and Decent: Arts of the Kentucky Shakers, examines the material culture of the Shakers.
The Exhibition that Never Was
Although Breck was not the first painter to depict Venice using an impressionist technique, he was the first American to create a large body of Venetian views in that style.
Openings and Closings: December 30 to January 5
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country and abroad!
A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Understanding the house means understanding the man who created it, the man who at twenty-seven became acting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and made the country’s oldest public art museum the most talked about arts institution in the country.
Current and Coming: The Sistine Chapel in San Antonio
How did filmmakers re-create the majesty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the days before digital computer effects? With gigantic hand-painted scenic backdrops.
Openings and Closings: December 23 to December 29
Check out what’s going on this week at museums at home and abroad!
“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”: Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist, Alethea Hill Platt
Reviewers called Plattʼs landscapes “brilliant in tone but true to the colors found in sky and plain and vale,” and praised her interiors for “quaintness of type and richness of color in shadowy corners and firelit hearths”
“An Unsuspected Man of Genius”
The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck.