A current exhibition at the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York demonstrates
the continuing influence of antiquity on the art of our time.
Field notes: Background Check
“Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin tells about the life and work of an English painter born without arms or legs.
Museum accessions: Loan Star
Newly arrived artworks on long-term loan enliven the American Galleries of the MFA, Houston.
Somewhere West of Laramie
On the Jordan Playboy roadster: A car for the liberated woman of the Jazz Age.
Gotham: Crucible of American Art
How New York City became the center of the US art world.
Curious Objects: Gilded-Age Silver with the Gilded Gentleman
All about Gilded Age silver, with Curious Objects and the Gilded Gentleman.
Facets and settings: Brilliant-cut Boston
All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
Garden Varieties
A forthcoming exhibition charts the affinities between paintings of the French countryside by the impressionist Claude Monet and the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell.
Current and coming: A founding Black family in Philadelphia
The Museum of the American Revolution’s latest show highlights the storied Forten family of Philadelphia.