A current exhibition explores the art and milieu of the elusive American landscape painter Guy Wiggins.
Couture for Portraiture
A forthcoming exhibition examines the significance of fashion in the art of John Singer Sargent.
Endnotes: Making Choices
Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Narratives in the Needlework
Storytelling through quilts in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
Current and coming: A self-taught artist in the internment camps
Takuichi Fujii’s illustrated diary during Executive Order 9066 is on display at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.
Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color
An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
A Venetian Master Reconsidered
Few painters have experienced as great a fluctuation in their posthumous fortunes as Vittore Carpaccio, the subject of a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC…
End notes: Frill Seekers
Did you ever wonder how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s use of distinctive collars with her judicial robes ever came about?
Field Notes: Philadelphia Stories
Big things are afoot at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, this country’s first museum and school of fine arts, very big things.
Current and coming: Artistic DNA at the Salmagundi Club
All about an exhibition at the Salmagundi Club