Did you ever wonder how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s use of distinctive collars with her judicial robes ever came about?
Current and Coming: Hopper’s New York at the Whitney
Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
Field trip: She Dwelt in Possibility (and This House)
Emily Dickinson’s butter-colored brick home in Amherst, Massachusetts, began drawing the curious long before her enigmatic poetry appeared in print.
Current and Coming: Delayed Debuts in LA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has at last unveiled Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980.
Current and Coming: Morris Hirshfield at AFAM
Here is proof, once again, that the spark of artistic genius may glow in the hearts of even the most unlikely-seeming people.
Field Notes: Philadelphia Stories
Big things are afoot at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, this country’s first museum and school of fine arts, very big things.
Current and Coming: Delayed Debuts in Greenwich
In Connecticut, the Greenwich Historical Society has finally been able to mount Life and Art: The Greenwich Paintings of John Henry Twachtman.
Current and Coming: Above and beyond at LACMA
Everyone is familiar with mid-century New York’s abstract expressionist scene; less so, perhaps, with the Transcendental Painting Group of the American Southwest…
First Against the Wall
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores the work of Diego Rivera in America at scales large and small
Current and Coming: Spanish Colonial Threads at the Blanton
You are what you wear? Studies of fashion play a key role in understanding historical social and cultural structures, as demonstrated by Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America, a current exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art.