The Museum of the American Revolution’s latest show highlights the storied Forten family of Philadelphia.
Current and coming: Berenice Abbott in New York
Berenice Abbott’s capture of New York City in transition is the subject of a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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.
On view: Glenn Adamson’s Mirror Mirror at Chatsworth
Art and design of today visit a historic British manor house.
Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color
An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
Current and coming: Helen LaFrance at the Speed
While not exceedingly well known, Kentucky native Helen LaFrance was one of the most gifted and prolific self-taught artists of the past century…
A Venetian Master Reconsidered
Few painters have experienced as great a fluctuation in their posthumous fortunes as Vittore Carpaccio, the subject of a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC…
Field trip: Son et Lumiere, Twenty-First-Century Style
In terms of a cultural trend, something possibly important is afoot in a spectacle titled Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion, which recently opened in lower Manhattan at the Hall des Lumières…
John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey
John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…