See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Revolutionary Renaissance Man
Looking past his famous ride, the American Antiquarian Society charts the career of Paul Revere as an artist and entrepreneur
Boston Strong
As the Carolyn and Peter Lynch art collection travels to the Peabody Essex Museum, we look at a small part of it at home on Commonwealth Avenue
Starting a Conversation
A new exhibition of artworks from the National Academy of Design creates a dialogue between artists across the centuries
Rokeby: The past is present
In an excerpt from his new book, Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, Pieter Estersohn examines the rich legacy of one of America’s great houses.
Dispatch 15: UNDER WESTERN EYES
The fifteenth edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Arts and letters
A new exhibition explores the affinities between the work of Henry James and the American painting of his time.
Women and Watercolor
How a medium changed the fortunes of female artists in America.
Dennis Miller, Helen Keller, Bunker
The solemn nothings that fill our everyday life blossom suddenly into bright possibilities —Helen Keller Life is such an actual thing —Dennis Miller Bunker Is it just me or is Dennis Miller Bunker’s painting Wild Asters more than beautiful (Fig. 1)? The blue stream rushes under us, grasses bending in the current, and the streamside bushes spray on either bank. …
A spirited conversation: The European and American Galleries at the Harvard Art Museums
When visitors enter the renovated and reinstalled Harvard Art Museums on the north side of Harvard Yard, they will find a series of galleries that invite a new way to approach the history of American art. The first and second floors of the Fogg Museum galleries in the 205,000-square-foot facility designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop bring together the …