See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Nevertheless, she persisted: Commemorating the Nineteenth Amendment
On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote in political elections. The road to suffrage had been a long one.
Sargent’s portraits in charcoal at the Morgan
“Ask me to paint your gates, your fences, your barns, which I should gladly do, but not the human face,” wrote the great portraitist John Singer Sargent in 1907.
Absent minded
It’s only late summer, but I believe we can already declare an award for bravest museum of the year: the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC.
Traces of art at the National Portrait Gallery
Touted as the first exhibition of its kind, Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now features historical silhouettes alongside analogous work by contemporary artists.
Never done
Depictions of women at work from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition on American labor