This month, the Neue Galerie brings us Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, the much-anticipated completion of curator Olaf Peters’ trilogy of meditations on interwar Germany and Austria.
The leafy modernism of Ilonka Karasz
How a prolific, polymathic artist and designer joined an eye for the sleek with a taste for the pastoral
A painted brag at the Yale Center for British Art
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World at the Yale Center for British Art
Trim and ends
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