Martín Ramírez (1895–1963) was an itinerant Mexican laborer who, homeless in California in the 1930s and arrested for vagrancy, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the rest of his life confined to state psychiatric institutions. Ramírez was also, by many lights, one of the more brilliant artists of the twentieth century.
A stitch in wartime
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
Arts and letters
A new exhibition explores the affinities between the work of Henry James and the American painting of his time.
Review: Sanford R. Gifford In the Catskills at the Thomas Cole House
Among members of the Hudson River School of painting, Sanford Robinson Gifford has long been considered one of the most brilliant painters of light and air.
Acquisitions & mergers
A new exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles is the latest showcase for the powerful work of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Charmed circle
A new exhibition at the Guggenheim examines the supernatural symbolist artists of late nineteenth-century France.
Thoroughly Modern Moses
What did Grandma Moses have in common with the likes of Jackson Pollock? Arguably, plenty.
Salaam to the Keir Collection in Dallas
Built by a Hungarian, named for an eighteenth-century house he owned in London, lent after his death to a museum in Berlin, and now residing at the Dallas Museum of Art—the Keir Collection of Islamic Art is the epitome of global cultural exchange even before you consider its contents.
The Middle Ages meets the Digital Age in Chicago
A glimpse of the possible future of museum displays of historical artifacts can be seen in the recent opening of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor.
Neglected viewpoints at the National Gallery of Art
A body of work that has received scant attention from collectors is on view this spring at the National Gallery of Art.