We hadn’t heard much about Betsy Ross for—oh, about forty years or so. At the time of the Bicentennial, she was the most famous woman in American history, a figurative mother of the country who “gave birth to our collective symbol.”
A rediscovered Delacroix debuts in Houston
Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its latest acquisition: a newly rediscovered smaller and earlier version of Eugène Delacroix’s masterpiece Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Two shows highlight the powerful imagery of Gordon Parks
“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be . . . I had the instinct toward championing the cause”
Assessing Early Newcomb Pottery
Fifty-one years ago, this publication introduced many readers to the Newcomb Pottery in a short article based on what had been learned to that date about the first decades at the New Orleans ceramics enterprise founded in 1895.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/30/19–10/6/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Chivalry is not dead at the Met
On the five hundredth anniversary of the year of Maximilian’s death, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I.
Roy Lichtenstein’s “Entablatures” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Classical ornaments recover their luster in the hands of the pop artist
Getting Wired at the Peabody Essex Museum
This month, Ben Miller travels to Salem, MA, to learn how researchers at the Peabody Essex Museum are analyzing the ways people look at art, and blazing the way for the museology of the future.
Sargent’s portraits in charcoal at the Morgan
“Ask me to paint your gates, your fences, your barns, which I should gladly do, but not the human face,” wrote the great portraitist John Singer Sargent in 1907.
Tea and Symmetry
The Glasgow tearoom designs
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
for Miss Catherine Cranston.