An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
Five Peacocks from Master Enamelist Frank J. Marshall
Artist Frank Marshall pushed the traditional boundaries of enameling technique and arts and crafts design, creating a rich body of work around 1900.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 1/22/20–1/28/20
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Treasure Island
A Q+A with Nantucket Historical Association curator Michael Harrison
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.
Rhode Island gets its due
Thanks to an active export market that sent its wares to the southern colonies, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean, furniture makers of Rhode Island enjoyed an influence far greater than their industry’s small size. The region’s superlative, and often misattributed, craftsmanship from the colonial and early Federal periods is the focus of a new exhibition, Art and Industry in …
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. …
End notes: John Singer Sargent’s portraits at the MET
“Scintillating…addictive” applauded The Guardian; “outstanding…one of the best I’ve ever seen,” acclaimed The Telegraph; “mesmerising” said The Spectator. All were describing the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends at London’s National Portrait Gallery earlier this year. But for anyone in New York this summer, it gets even better. An expanded version of the show of John Singer Sargent’s portraits …
Ahead of the curve: The Newark Museum now and then
In a better world we would all be thronging the doors of the Newark Museum; in the best of worlds Ulysses Grant Dietz would be there to meet us, taking us through the galleries with fellow curators Christa Clarke and Katherine Anne Paul. But this is Newark-not a destination for many out-of-town museumgoers (though it should be), so Ulysses Dietz …