In early eighteenth-century Italy, Giacomo Ceruti’s sensitive portraits of the down-and-out turned artistic orthodoxy on its head.
Curious Objects: A Newly Unearthed George Washington Letter, with Nathan Raab
A never-before-seen missive by George Washington is the subject of this week’s interview…
Current and coming: Edvard Munch at the Clark
Lesser-known works receive the spotlight at the Clark Art Institute.
Editor’s letter: September/October 2023
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio celebrates the oncoming of fall.
Curious Objects: Jade, the Imperial Gem, with Clarissa von Spee
Investigating a pair of luxury jade vessels from the Qing Dynasty, with curator Clarissa von Spee…
Curious Objects: Leather, with Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson talks all about leather, one of the oldest as well as the commonest human-worked materials.
Endnotes: Making Choices
Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Curious Objects: A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 2
Benjamin Miller continues his odyssey through the PEM’s James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Collection Center…
Museum visit: Second Sight
The Intuit Museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art.
Making Faces
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.