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.
Current and coming: Artistic DNA at the Salmagundi Club
All about an exhibition at the Salmagundi Club
Current and coming: Botticelli heads to Minnesota
An exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art takes a look at the major works of Botticelli
Citizen Biddle
Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum celebrates a native son, the progressive artist George Biddle
Current and coming: True colors at the Met
An exhibition at the Met reveals the vibrant colors of classical Greek and Roman sculpture
Sculptor Sui Generis
Literally peerless, Auguste Rodin brought a supremely idiosyncratic sensibility to bear on the making of art
Current and coming: Giacometti comes to Seattle
An exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum highlights the work of Alberto Giacometti
The Origins of Edgefield Pottery
A curator at the Metropolitan Museum examines the history of the famed nineteenth-century South Carolina ceramics