The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing celebrates its centennial anniversary with a reinstallation.
Taking the Train at the Shelburne Museum
A traveling exhibition highlights the heyday of the American railroad through art.
Museum accessions: Loan Star
Newly arrived artworks on long-term loan enliven the American Galleries of the MFA, Houston.
In the galleries: The American West at Wigmore
The New York gallery D. Wigmore Fine Art has a special talent for discovering affinities and relationships between works of art from disparate eras and in different styles, and the gallery’s current exhibition—The Changing West: 1865 to 1965—is another potent manifestation of that ability.
Current and Coming: Hopper’s New York at the Whitney
Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
Current and coming: Redefining American art at the Peabody Essex
A new gallery’s inaugural exhibition questions the definition of “American art.”
Current and coming: Weirdness in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is the third venue Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Casting a Cold Eye on Life and Death
An exhibition at the Met surveys the art of Winslow Homer through the lens of conflict
Dressed for Success
Appreciation for early American miniaturists Mary Way and Betsey Way Champlain
Frost and Friends: “A Coincidence of Taste”
An exhibition explores the artistic circle surrounding poet Robert Frost during his Vermont years