Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio discusses the creation of the May/June 2023 issue and remembers past culinary-inspired covers in the latest editor’s letter.
New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
A continued study on the work of English jeweler Stephen Twycross.
Museum visit: Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City
The country’s National Museum Of History has traveled a long, strange road from viceregal citadel to cultural institution.
Field notes: Background Check
“Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin tells about the life and work of an English painter born without arms or legs.
Museum accessions: Loan Star
Newly arrived artworks on long-term loan enliven the American Galleries of the MFA, Houston.
Gotham: Crucible of American Art
How New York City became the center of the US art world.
Facets and settings: Brilliant-cut Boston
All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
Garden Varieties
A forthcoming exhibition charts the affinities between paintings of the French countryside by the impressionist Claude Monet and the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell.
The Many Mysteries of Vermeer
The most intriguing and inscrutable of the Dutch Old Masters is the subject of a can’t-miss exhibition in Amsterdam.
Current and coming: Sargent’s Spanish sojourns
A survey of John Singer Sargent’s Iberian paintings is on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.