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. ⬬
Exhibitions: Where Wast Thou
Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬
Exhibitions: Art Forms of Nature
In Jan van Kessel’s Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark, the antediluvian world is presented as Earth in need of a hyper-taxonomy, rather than the biblical drama of destruction. ⬬
Exhibitions: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico
For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
Exhibitions: Body Language
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.
Echoes of the Dance
A monumental nineteenth-century painting of a Native ceremony is the centerpiece for an examination of a still-resonant cross-cultural encounter in California
Current and coming: Art of Joy at the High
Joy takes center stage in the new exhibition Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe at the High Museum of Art
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 10/30/19–11/05/19
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Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/9/19–9/15/19
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Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/2/19–9/8/19
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