Yolŋu bark paintings at the Asia Society.
Field Notes: Heavenly Visions
The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Consolation Prizes
An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.
Current and coming: Penobscot basketry in Rockland
The Farnsworth Art Museum exhibits an indigenous artistic tradition.
Beautiful Little Pictures
Miniature landscapes in nineteenth-century America.
Current and coming: Eastman Johnson in Waterville
A bicentennial-birthday exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Current and coming: Modernism in Ogunquit, Maine
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art exhibits Russell Cheney’s domestic scenes.
Current and coming: Appalachian discontents in Philadelphia
PAFA explores Appalachia’s contribution to the City of Brotherly Love.
Current and coming: Tornado watch in Michigan
John Steuart Curry’s Midwestern paintings at the Muskegon Museum of Art.
Field notes: Facing Forward
An exploration of the Big Apple’s past at the New-York Historical Society.