Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
A Samuel Yellin Masterpiece Rediscovered
Yellin & Walker’s firescreen for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Openings and Closings: January 13 to January 19
Check out what’s going on this week at museums around the country!
Personal Space: Synapse Judgment
A neuroscientist ponders the collecting impulse.
Built Environment: A Masterpiece Made by Graft
Amid the pale, Grecian mediocrity of Lower Manhattan’s civic center stands a monument of unaccountable excellence, the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street.
Taking Inventory: Lovable Leos
Get to know a pair of winsome pieces of Pennsylvania pottery at the Met
A portrait takes shape (From our Archives)
In late October 1916 the American impressionist artist William Merritt Chase lay dying at his town house on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan
Hail the Met at 150
A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
Openings and Closings: Even More Museums available Digitally
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world