A Pennsylvania exhibition about the Moravian church’s landscape traditions explores the fertile intersection between spiritual beliefs and garden design.
Exhibitions: Tagine Dream
Islamic dining traditions at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Thomas Cole Visits Prophetstown
Artist Alan Michelson takes residence at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
A Rare Viewing of Aboriginal Art in the Big Apple
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.