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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. ⬬
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. ⬬
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. ⬬
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. ⬬
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. ⬬
Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬
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. ⬬
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. ⬬
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.
A monumental nineteenth-century painting of a Native ceremony is the centerpiece for an examination of a still-resonant cross-cultural encounter in California