Three of the missing six panels in Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series make their debut in a new exhibition
An Immigrant Artist of the Jazz Age
A forthcoming exhibition at the New-York Historical Society cast a spotlight on the under-sung Winold Reiss
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
Current and coming: In New Bedford, Ryder on the Storm
The energetically abstracted land- and seascapes of Albert Pinkham Ryder are coming to the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Current and coming: Revisiting Objects: USA at R and Company
Objects: USA 2020 – a new exhibition at the New York gallery R and Company serves as an homage to and a reboot of the original
Critical thinking difficult issues: May/June 2021
Legacies of the New Deal
Masterful Mentor
The artist Frank Vincent DuMond made a career helping other painters to see.
On books: May/June 2021
A new publication explores a subject rarely addressed by design historians: how was time experienced by Britons in the early modern period?
Going Medieval
Cardiff Castle in Wales embodies the Victorian era’s love for the myth and lore of times long past
Editor’s letter: May/June 2021
But how can we work together in a world where most people do not trust one another to make sensible decisions?