There is no way to know exactly what dance was like in antiquity. There are accounts of it in writings by ancient authors, such as Lucian (c. 120–192), a satirist of imperial Rome.
A cultural trifecta at the Bard Graduate Center
Our own interests in art and design history range so broadly that we were delighted by the diverse trio of exhibitions now on view concurrently at the Bard Graduate Center.
Botanical Bossa Nova
He’s back! The irrepressible Brazilian artist and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, dead these twenty-five years, is on stage once again, this time at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx
Up in the Air
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