THE MAGAZINE
MARCH/APRIL 2018
COVER: An untitled painting by Ilonka Karasz (1896–1981) c. 1920. Collection of the Portas family; photograph
by Michael McKelvey, courtesy of the Georgia Museum of
Art, Athens.
Editor’s letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
Fallen Idylls: Ruins in the American collective consciousness
Glenn Adamson
Current and coming
The Paston Treasure at the Yale Center for British Art, totalitarian terror at the Neue Galerie, the art of Chicago saloniste Gertrude Abercrombie at the Illinois State Museum, and more
Museum visit
Reconsidering sepia: Clarence White’s photography at the Davis
Sammy Dalati
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Gertrude Fiske breaks the glass ceiling at Discover Portmouth
Eleanor H. Gustafsonem
Features
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
Ashley Callahan
Ashley Callahan
Brilliance by any name
The attributions in the Michel Sittow exhibition at the National Gallery of Art may be arguable. The artistic genius on view is not
James Gardner
James Gardner
Trims and ends
An exhibition at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia showcases the lost art of hair work
John Whitenight
John Whitenight
