An excerpt from the book that is the basis for a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
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
Masterful Mentor
The artist Frank Vincent DuMond made a career helping other painters to see.
Editor’s letter: May/June 2021
But how can we work together in a world where most people do not trust one another to make sensible decisions?
A New Day at the PMA
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