The consummation of an immigrant odyssey, the Vilcek Foundation charts the artistic argosy of Ralston Crawford in the inaugural exhibition at its new home
Two Gems of Charm City
The Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art form a powerful cultural tandem
Portraits by a Minister’s Daughter
New scholarship offers insights into the life of the elusive early American artist Mary B. Tucker
Come in for a landing at the TWA hotel
The iconic TWA Flight Center is back in business after a renovation that makes it the centerpiece of a new hotel and hospitality complex.
Uncommon Threads
A gallery in the Connecticut countryside puts the leading lights of fiber art front and center
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on UNESCO World Heritage List
What’s old is new, what’s new is old. Eight of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s idiosyncratic modern buildings have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, the international preservation organization announced on Sunday.
Remembering sculptor Claude Lalanne
Main de roman, an exquisite little sculpture could easily have been overlooked at this spring’s edition of TEFAF New York, but it stood out in L’Arcen Seine’s gallery booth as a memorial to Les Lalanne, the sculpting and design duo who created a universe of lyrical and iconoclastic objects in stubborn defiance of art world trends for over half a century.
Northern Lights
If fin de siècle Nordic cultural ferment—and contemporary global anxiety—is often summarized in shorthand by Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893), to enter the former home of Stockholm banker Ernest Thiel (1859–1947), a museum open to the public since 1926, is to dwell in the plush, cool parlors where such paintings were first revered as windows into the human psyche.
Folk art flashbacks
Stacy Hollander recently relinquished her long and laudable curatorial career at the American Folk Art Museum, a constant through the many changes AFAM has seen over the years.
Commentary: The market for the art of the Hudson River school is alive and well
Recent articles discussing the American art auctions in May at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York expressed concern about the state of the market for Hudson River school paintings.