Thomas Cole used a small camera obscura to frame the landscape and define the composition of his paintings. Contemporary Chinese photographer Shi Guorui uses this ancient optical device to create monumental landscape panoramas.
Reginald Marsh in the sunlight at the Benton
In the 1920s, Marsh traveled several times to Florida and the Caribbean and there he revealed a different, sunnier aspect of his artistic interests.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/16/19–9/22/19
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Last Chance! “Village Enlightenment” at the Bennington Museum
Yanks scratching out a living in Vermont’s Upper Connecticut River Valley in the early 1800s depended on their neighbors for maps, Bibles, and almanacs
The tale of a year at the Huntington
In a year that sees several notable centennial anniversaries, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is commemorating its own one hundredth birthday.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/9/19–9/15/19
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Required reading at the Boston Athenæum
Everyone has played the game: if you were stranded on a desert island, what books (or music, movies, or companions) would you want with you?
ANTIQUES in Brimfield, 2019
Thousands of antiques dealers congregate along a half-mile strip of Route 20 in Brimfield, MA, every year to hawk untold quantities of folk art, furniture, vintage signs, silverware, and other collectibles.
Shoot the moon: Three exhibitions on lunar photography
For much of human history, people were forced to imagine what the moon was really like. Was it flat like a disk? Made of cheese? Was it inhabited?
Thierry Mugler at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The show paints a compelling portrait of the freewheeling and creative nature of late twentieth-century haute couture, but it’s really about an idea