If it were in any other city, the Brooklyn Museum would be a world-class destination—and for the savvy museumgoer it already is.
Field Notes: Heavenly Visions
The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Consolation Prizes
An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.
Field notes: Facing Forward
An exploration of the Big Apple’s past at the New-York Historical Society.
Essential Questions
The American Folk Art Museum confronts viewers with the thorny matter of art and mental illness.
Pictures from a Lost Generation
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery honors the American women abroad who remade themselves while making modernism.
Field notes: Nature’s Child
A look into the contemporary relevance of Beatrix Potter’s work.
Field notes: Rolling Along
A visit to the Velocipede Museum in Newburgh, New York.
Field notes: The Road to Redemption
The Barnes Foundation’s new book explores its past and present.
Looking Both Ways
The New-York Historical Society unveils Kay WalkingStick’s view of Hudson River school landscapes.