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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.
Absent minded
It’s only late summer, but I believe we can already declare an award for bravest museum of the year: the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC.
Finding a past for the present
Rural imagery in precisionist art
Other Americas
The Whitney Museum reappraises the career of Grant Wood
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.