“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.
Menageries of the Middle Ages at the Getty
The Getty Museum has mounted an exhibition devoted to some of the most splendid of bestiaries, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World.
Escape Artist
An exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum surveys the adventurous enchantments of illustrator N. C. Wyeth
Sew on and Sew Forth
The American Folk Art Museum shows off a recent gift of quilts
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Three New York cultural institutions—the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and the Morgan Library and Museum—as well as the Library of Congress, are putting on summer exhibitions to honor the poet of democracy, empathy, and “the body electric.”
Dada’s and Surrealism’s Poetic Roots at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
Both Dadaism and surrealism were movements started not by visual artists but by poets; it was the book, not the canvas, that was terra firma.
Pierre Cardin at the Brooklyn Museum
Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion is on view at the Brooklyn Museum from July 20 to January 5, 2020
At the Cloisters, a treasure concealed is revealed
It is the nature of art history to bring to light beautiful objects that have long lain hidden from sight. This is true of almost every ancient artifact, and many a medieval one, that we admire today. But there is something special about the discovery of the objects to be seen in The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy.
A Great Dane in Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrates the work of a master from the “great age of illustration” around the turn of the twentieth century: the Danish artist Kay Nielsen.