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Done in by Rebellion
At the Museum of the American Revolution, art and artifacts trace the life and death of an Irish officer in the British Army.
On Books: Seuss and Sensibility
If Dr. Seuss did not exist, we would have a hard time inventing him, since we would have a hard time even imagining him.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s North Entrance Reopens
Visitors can now enter the museum from Kelly Drive, and peruse a new gift shop, an espresso bar, and education facilities
Re-envisioning Cole’s Catskills
Thomas Cole used a small camera obscura to frame the landscape and define the composition of his paintings. Contemporary Chinese photographer Shi Guorui uses this ancient optical device to create monumental landscape panoramas.
Reginald Marsh in the sunlight at the Benton
In the 1920s, Marsh traveled several times to Florida and the Caribbean and there he revealed a different, sunnier aspect of his artistic interests.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/16/19–9/22/19
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Last Chance! “Village Enlightenment” at the Bennington Museum
Yanks scratching out a living in Vermont’s Upper Connecticut River Valley in the early 1800s depended on their neighbors for maps, Bibles, and almanacs
The tale of a year at the Huntington
In a year that sees several notable centennial anniversaries, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is commemorating its own one hundredth birthday.
Robert Frank, photographer (1924–2019)
With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank roamed the United States in 1955 and ’56 in a Ford coupe, capturing some 2,800 documentary images on his Leica 35mm camera.