Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 14–January 9, 2019
Sunny dispositions
A new exhibition at the Met examines the glad spirits of the impressionists and others en plein air
Flora and fauna set the table at Winterthur
Dining by Design at Winterthur
“Not my grandmother’s china”
The Artistic Table is on view until June 10th at Hillwood in Washington, DC
Lasting impressions
Classic lithographs at the Zimmerli
Breaking new ground
Picturing Mississippi at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and a related exhibition at Tougaloo College are events in museum history as much as landmarks in the state’s history
Celebrating Benjamin West at the Pennsylvania Academy
Pennsylvania-born artist Benjamin West began his career stateside, but it was across the Atlantic, in England, where he found fame, as a court painter to George III
Brilliance by any name
The attributions in the Michel Sittow exhibition at the National Gallery of Art may be arguable. The artistic genius on view is not.
Splendid glass in Sandwich, Mass.
Glass lamps made in the 1860s and 1870s were often quite decorative, and a number of those made at the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company in Sandwich, Massachusetts, were particularly well done.
The outsider artist as storyteller
Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum