If there was a poster boy for January’s Winter Show in New York, it was surely Maxine Helfman’s George Washington, from her Forefathers series offered by Elle Shushan.
Rethreading Her Needle
A cosmopolitan eye for color and line took embroiderer Mariska Karasz from the world of fashion design to that of fine art
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels
Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore
The Other O’Keeffe
Overshadowed by her sister Georgia, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe gets her day in the sun with an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art
Star Power
A Pawnee war club offers an object lesson in interpreting Native American art
The Met Spreads Its Wing
The exhibition Art of Native America brings this country’s first art to the newly invigorated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Master Drawings: An event for the Ambulatory Art Lover
After the hoopla of Americana Week and the glitter of the Winter Show, the art connoisseurial scene in New York takes takes a decidedly soigné turn with the Master Drawings program.
Master of Dramatic Composition
Celebrating the Venetian artist Tintoretto at five hundred
“Their wings are my protest”
Exhibitions in Britain and America celebrate the beautiful anachronisms of the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers
Victor Hugo’s storm-swept drawings at the Hammer
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles shines a light on sixty-four drawings selected from the more than three thousand sheets of illustrations that Hugo left to the world.