The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.
Nate DiMeo’s audio erudition
If you have your computer or smart phone handy and aren’t already familiar with Nate DiMeo’s podcast, “The Memory Palace,” hasten to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.
Treasures beyond gold
A new exhibition examines the luxury arts of the ancient Americas
Handle with Care #4
The fourth installment of our web-only column on ceramics and glass.
The Met snares a splendid piece of southern stoneware
Face jugs crafted in the mid-nineteenth century by slaves and freedmen working in the Edgefield District of South Carolina are among the rarest and most historically significant of American folk art ceramics. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired a superb one.
Bravura bamboo at the Met
As a symbol of fortitude and flexibility, bamboo often appears in Japanese art depicting rough weather—bearing up under high winds or the burden of snow, bending yet refusing to break.
A New World Old Master
In the closing years of the seventeenth century, Cristóbal de Villalpando was, in all likelihood, the best-known painter in the New World—and most of us have never heard of him.
A hallucinatory Old Master at the Met
The Flemish artist Hercules Segers—now the recipient of his first exhibition in America, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York—was probably the oddest European painter and printmaker of the seventeenth century.
Pocket-size punch
These tiny triumphs speak to human ingenuity, boundless reservoirs of patience, and painstaking craftsmanship in efforts where the slightest error will ruin the whole.
“My native continent”
Maine’s influence on the art of Marsden Hartley.