An exhibition at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia showcases the lost art of hair work
Toasting the Caesars at the Met
The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Never done
Depictions of women at work from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition on American labor
Farther afield: The world of divas deconstructed at the Victoria and Albert
Opera: Passion, Power and Politics at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Family portrait
Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons at the Frick Collection
A copious bounty
Works by and about women in the Fielding Collection of Early American Art at the Huntington
The natural
Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Currier Museum of Art
Georgia guns
In Georgia, the beauty of lock, stock, and barrel
Karat + Tick: Form Watches
Form watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Interpreting the ancient: The Portland Japanese Garden’s new Cultural Village
For me, a foretaste of the evocative new architecture at the Portland Japanese Garden came two years ago during the rice harvest season in a hamlet on the west coast of Japan.