The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts is revisiting the grand era of ocean liner travel.
100th birthday tributes to Andrew Wyeth
How three museums are celebrating the 100th birthday of Andrew Wyeth.
Flowers of Death
A powerful exhibition looks at World War I through the lens of American Art.
A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment
Revisiting Harvard’s Philosophy Chamber.
Getting hitched: The St. John Altarpiece
With its tenderly human tableaux painted on a golden background, the St. John Altarpiece, attributed to Francescuccio Ghissi (active 1359–1374), was a gem of Italian art at the dawn of the Renaissance. But at some point in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, the altarpiece was sawn apart to separate its nine constituent panels.
Of an artist dying young
Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery of Art.
Old guard avant-garde
In the Berkshires, two blue-blooded artists made a home for modernism in America.
Mad as Hellas at the Onassis Cultural Center
We think of the art of ancient Greece as the epitome of serene beauty and refinement, but a new exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York reveals how often deep, even combustible, feelings were expressed in the artifacts of the Hellenic civilization.
All along the watchtowers at Yale
“From being the homes of great lords in the Middle Ages to being either homes of modern aristocrats or ruins (many castles were destroyed during the English Civil War), castles became both symbols of democracy and warnings to aristocrats that you had to always respect the power of the people.”
A Romare Bearden survey at the Taubman
Like his art, Bearden’s life was about changes of context.