The traveling exhibition Calder–Picasso arrives at the High Museum of Art this June
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
Editor’s Letter: July/August 2021
Editor-in-chief Gregory Cerio welcomes readers to our July/August 2021 issue!
Curious Objects:The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
During the Great Depression, the WPA funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods
Openings and Closings: June 30 to July 6
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Current and coming: In New Bedford, Ryder on the Storm
The energetically abstracted land- and seascapes of Albert Pinkham Ryder are coming to the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Current and coming: Revisiting Objects: USA at R and Company
Objects: USA 2020 – a new exhibition at the New York gallery R and Company serves as an homage to and a reboot of the original
From the Archives: High styles: American design in the twentieth century
An archival article from 1985 makes its web debut!
A Samuel Yellin Masterpiece Rediscovered
Yellin & Walker’s firescreen for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Critical thinking difficult issues: May/June 2021
Legacies of the New Deal