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
Tiffany church windows at the Driehaus Museum
Chicago was very good to Louis Comfort Tiffany and the artist-designers who passed through his studio
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/2/19–9/8/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Revolutionary Renaissance Man
Looking past his famous ride, the American Antiquarian Society charts the career of Paul Revere as an artist and entrepreneur
Manet’s idea of beauty at the Art Institute of Chicago
“La femme,” Edgar Degas once opined, “en général est laide”: women, in general, are ugly.
A River Runs Through It
A new exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy explores the influence of the Schuylkill River artists
British watercolors at the Gibbes
Rising up in the midst of the Charleston Historic District, what is today the Gibbes Museum of Art was founded in 1858 and has inhabited a sumptuous beaux-arts monument, inspired by the works of Andrea Palladio, since 1905.
The Sixth Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe
“The Super Bowl, Wimbledon—whatever you want to compare it to, that’s what this week is for Native American art in Santa Fe.”
Pierre Cardin fashion and furniture at the Brooklyn Museum
In his fashion work, designer Pierre Cardin sought to remake the human body in his sculptural ideal.