In the dozen children’s books he wrote and illustrated—chief among them his best-known and most enduring, Where the Wild Things Are—Maurice Sendak displayed uncommonly deep insight into the youthful psyche…
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey
John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…
Shadowy Figures
When Charles Scribner’s Sons decided to publish an illustrated book on hoofed mammals in 1953, it was probably not a subject with promising financial prospects—a worthy scientific treatise, perhaps, but certainly not something expected to appeal to the general public. Yet when the book appeared, its dazzling black-and-white graphics made it one of Scribner’s most appealing offerings of the year…
Current and coming: Making Icebergs at Olana
Olana—the historic estate of Hudson River school artist Frederic Edwin Church, with its faux-Persian mansion surrounded by a landscape devised by the painter as a living work of art—is hosting winter art exhibitions for the first time…
Art Deco in Jamaica
Not long after art deco design received an international showcase at the famed Paris universal exposition of 1925, inspired responses to the new style emerged in virtually every field of the applied and visual arts…
First Against the Wall
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores the work of Diego Rivera in America at scales large and small
Curious Objects: The Shakers, Pt. 2: Afterlife
In the second and final part of Curious Objects’ exploration of Shakerism, host Benjamin Miller interrogates the myths that have arisen around this movement in the 150-odd years since its heyday…
Current and coming: Botticelli heads to Minnesota
An exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art takes a look at the major works of Botticelli
The Origins of Edgefield Pottery
A curator at the Metropolitan Museum examines the history of the famed nineteenth-century South Carolina ceramics