A curator guides us through the revamped early American galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the Archives: Freedom in miniature: Mary Way’s Coded Portrait of Charles Holt
Mary Way and her sister Betsy Way Champlain produced many images of men of various ages in and around New London from the late 1790s through 1825, this is the only one in military dress.
Curious Objects: Five Hundred Years of American Craft, with Glenn Adamson
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East Meets West
An exhibition explores the affinities between a pair of American artists whose works have each become iconic representations of a region
In Memoriam: William H. Gerdts
Scholar, curator, writer, teacher, collector, and preeminent historian of American art
Hail the Met at 150
A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
Thomas Hart Benton on the Block
The artist’s original painting used in a liquor ad comes up for auction in Chicago
When Edith Met Abby
When Edith Gregor Halpert opened a gallery in Greenwich Village in 1926, the art world was a different place.
Canon Fodder at Hirschl & Adler
The rise of the neoclassical style in American decorative arts in the early decades of the nineteenth century coincided with a collective national sigh of relief.
Artist of the Land of Enchantment
This year, New Mexico celebrates the centenary of the arrival of Gustave Baumann, the master printmaker who captured the state’s magic—from its deserts to its deep forests.