Most of New York City’s Victorian heritage has vanished so thoroughly that few of the locals have any idea that it ever existed.
The Statues of Central Park
New York City’s Central Park was a prescient masterstroke of urban planning in the nineteenth century. Completed in 1874, the green space created by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux flowers on, vital in every sense, as a living work of art.
Star Power
A Pawnee war club offers an object lesson in interpreting Native American art
Master Drawings: An event for the Ambulatory Art Lover
After the hoopla of Americana Week and the glitter of the Winter Show, the art connoisseurial scene in New York takes takes a decidedly soigné turn with the Master Drawings program.
Women’s work at Hawthorne Fine Art
As the cultural tides seem finally to be lifting women artists into prominence on par with their male counterparts, more and more are emerging into public view. Several museums and galleries are presenting women artist- Hawthorne Fine Art focused shows, and one of these is at Hawthorne Fine Art in New York, where you can find the selling exhibition Breaking All Bounds: American Women Artists (1825–1945).
Maverick women at the MCNY
Victorian-era womanhood typically conjures images of ever-decorous ladies in bustles and dainty gloves. Lesser known are the women who pushed boundaries and flouted traditional roles—some through political activism or professional pursuits, others by simply living their lives as they desired.
A lost Jacob Lawrence painting rediscovered
The panel is one of five from a narrative series whose whereabouts have been unknown to scholars for nearly sixty years
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.
India and the arts and crafts movement at the Bard Graduate Center
The name Kipling is synonymous with British India in the nineteenth century, but a new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York hopes to foster associations beyond Gunga Din, Kim, and Peachey Carnehan.
Gotham Ink
A new exhibition examines the long, colorful history of tattooing in New York.
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