An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts offers a reappraisal of the institution’s foundational folk art collection
Museum visit: Environmental Protection
In Wisconsin, a new museum preserves spaces built, embellished, and inhabited by artists.
The Maker’s Hand
A new exhibition explores the tradition of craft in America and the making of modern art
“Conformable to that of the Waters”: The search for the origins of an early Kentucky furniture group
The cabriole-legged furniture of
Kentucky is the result of the region’s particular environmental, cultural, social, and economic forces, a kind of terroir, made manifest in wood
New World Wonder: How a geological oddity became an enduring symbol of the nation in American Art
In the mystery of its creation, its singular beauty, and the awe-inspiring
height of its towering arch, the Natural Bridge became a part of mythmaking—the creation of an American foundational lore
Bluegrass Treasures: A trio of excerpts from Into the Bluegrass: Art and Artistry of Kentucky’s Historic Icons
A trio of excerpts from a new book that celebrates the art of the early decade of the commonwealth of Kentucky.
William Hodgson of London and Richmond: The Payne Limner Revealed
Hodgson seems to have been a
true jack-of-all-trades. In addition
to portraits, miniatures, and hairwork for jewelry, he supplied composition ornament and carved architectural woodwork for buildings.
New Light: A Window on Mrs. Hackley and Her Greenwood Seminary
“Mahala Jameson marked this sampler under the direction of Mrs Hackley A D 1818.”
Openings and Closings: October 7 to October 13
Check out what’s going on this week online an in person at museums around the US!
Rooms With a Viewpoint
On the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s long-term project to breathe fresh life into its period rooms.