Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “May/June 2025”
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. ⬬
Once more familiar than the harpsichord, the salterio is being rediscovered by musicians drawn to its complexity, history, and spellbinding sound. ⬬
Look—across the pond. He’s young, he’s smart, and uncommonly poised. If he’s not Superman, who is? ⬬
With an incoming director and the institution’s first two curators of color, the reopening museum is in capable new hands.⬬
The story of Marcus and Co. is a dream script for a Julian Fellowes series. ⬬
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. ⬬
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Nautilus shell lamps by Moritz Hacker ⬬