Formed by a group of vanguard modern artists—including Marcel Duchamp, John Sloan, and William Glackens, among others—the association sought to provide artists—little known and renowned, figurative and abstract—the opportunity to present their paintings in annual exhibitions.
Homage to Rodin at the Legion of Honor
This year, to mark the centenary of Rodin’s death, the Legion of Honor will present approximately fifty of the nearly one hundred Rodin artworks it owns in new gallery installations that will, says the curator, Martin Chapman, “look at the whole of Rodin’s career and the major themes of his life and art.”
A symphony of Chagall in Montreal
Few artists have as deep an association with the world of music as Marc Chagall (1887–1985), and perhaps no other painter’s work evokes such a palpable sense of rhythm and harmony—his colors resonate; his compositions soar.
Depression-era prints from the Woodcut Society
As the Great Depression took hold of the country, artists were placed in a unique position to respond, interpret, and illuminate the turbulent changes of the time—both by necessity and by choice.
When Diego met Pablo, in Los Angeles
In the mature decades of their artistic careers, when Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera sought to create the new they turned to the ancient.
Pictorialist photography at the Palmer
The subject of a new exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, the photographer Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935) was a leading member of the Photo-Secession, the early twentieth-century movement founded by Alfred Stieglitz that sought to elevate photography to the status of fine art.
Old Kentucky Home styles at the Frazier
Kentucky by Design: Material Culture, Regionalism, and the New Deal at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville is an exhibition eighty years in the making. The show examines the never-before-seen work of Kentucky artists who contributed to the Index of American Design, part of the New Deal’s Federal Art Project.
Fame is a bee: Eyeing Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library and on film
No other American poet—maybe no other American writer—excites more curiosity than Emily Dickinson.
Restoring the lost laurels of Adolf Dehn
A new exhibition opening January 27, 2017 at the Fairfield University Art Museum in Connecticut aims to restore some luster to Adolf Dehn’s name.
Calamity and catharsis in Maine
Flood, fire, earthquake, drought…few things capture the collective imagination more than the subject of disaster.