The Frick revives the memory of a lost group of frescoes by Tiepolo
A classical Richmond furniture exhibition, at long last
Improbable as it may seem, the city of Richmond, Virginia, has never had an exhibition dedicated to its furniture. That is, until now.
On the clock at the Speed
The twenty-seven tall-case clocks on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, offer a rare glimpse of material life in the early American West.
Thomas Cole up the Creek
Only a short walk from Thomas Cole’s house and studio in upstate New York winds a stretch of Catskill Creek that the painter would return to depict again and again.
Painted Prayers of Thanks at Princeton
Like the literature of magical realism, the lovely painted metal Mexican retablos currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum cast memory, bonds of affection, calamity, and averted disaster in the intersecting space between modern times and the immutable past.
The Glories of Gorham
A forthcoming exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design
tells the epic story of a great American silverware maker
Modern Painters Abroad
John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites
Harvard celebrates the Bauhaus
In his 1948 year-end report, Charles Kuhn—Harvard professor, curator of the university’s Germanic Museum (later called the Busch-Reisinger Museum), and recently discharged deputy chief of the soldiering art experts known as the Monuments Men—took the modest first step to establish an archive of Bauhaus materials.
Making Paradise for Themselves
An exhibition at the High Museum of Art honors great self-taught artists of the American South
Fortuny and Friends at the Meadows
Though his fashion and textile designer son of the same name has more cachet today, the Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny was one of the most acclaimed and influential painters of the nineteenth century.