Tanya Minhas’s childhood memories are saturated in color. ⬬
The Object Ideal
If you’ve ever wondered what the perfect version of an everyday object looks like, you can see it in person at Robert Young Antiques in London this October. ⬬
Exhibitions: Green Mountain Magic
Magic realism was a distinctly American twentieth century genre in the sense that it constituted a unique merger of European surrealism of the 1920s and ’30s, with the long tradition of realist painting in the United States. ⬬
Exhibitions: A Room of Their Own
Peek around an elaborate wood screen and into a lush garden. It’s a watercolor by Anna Alma-Tadema, painted when she was nineteen. ⬬
Exhibition: Bottoms up in Cleveland
Be it a garnet-hued Barolo, a honey-colored Sauternes, or an everyday, ruby-red Côtes du Rhône, wine just seems to promise so much, whether that’s simply a nicer afternoon than one expected, or the possibility of love. ⬬
Suit Yourself: Armor as fashion at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Evocative doesn’t even begin to describe the latest exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. For the first time in over two hundred years, a set of baroque-era armor is on view to the public alongside Juan van der Hamen y Léon’s portrait of Jean de Croÿ wearing it. ⬬
Exhibitions: Working-class Roots
n 1905 Florence Thornton Butt used a sixty-dollar loan to open a supermarket—Mrs. C. Butt’s Staple and Fancy Grocery in Kerrville, Texas. Today Charles Butt remains the head of the grocery chain (now known as H-E-B), but he is also a passionate art collector focusing on American modernism. ⬬
Exhibitions: The Black Dandy
A cultural and historical look at Black style in Europe and beyond from the eighteenth century to today, it’s the Costume Institute’s first exhibition in over twenty years to focus exclusively on menswear and the first to explore the importance of fashion to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. ⬬
Exhibitions: Mother of Invention
The 1940s are about as far back as the living can remember, yet no era could be more resistant to the warm glow of nostalgia. ⬬
Exhibitions: Georgian Portraiture in New Haven
If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama in 2012, he would have the distinction of being the only American president with an important Old Master painter in his ancestry, having descended from George Romney, one of the finest portraitists in eighteenth-century England and the subject of the new exhibition, Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, at the Yale Center for British Art. ⬬