Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum celebrates a native son, the progressive artist George Biddle
Current and coming: True colors at the Met
An exhibition at the Met reveals the vibrant colors of classical Greek and Roman sculpture
English Lessons
A new exhibition explores the ways that Tudor England absorbed the artistic styles of the Continent and made them its own
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
Required reading at the Boston Athenæum
Everyone has played the game: if you were stranded on a desert island, what books (or music, movies, or companions) would you want with you?
Around the world with art deco
The Wolfsonian’s exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market offers an overview of this new aesthetic, presenting its unfamiliar dimensions and different iterations in Europe and across the Atlantic. Art deco is primarily characterized by an emphasis on surface decoration, symmetry, angularity, and stylization.
Women’s work at Hawthorne Fine Art
As the cultural tides seem finally to be lifting women artists into prominence on par with their male counterparts, more and more are emerging into public view. Several museums and galleries are presenting women artist- Hawthorne Fine Art focused shows, and one of these is at Hawthorne Fine Art in New York, where you can find the selling exhibition Breaking All Bounds: American Women Artists (1825–1945).
Photographic development
An exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art examines the career of Doris Ulmann, from New York portrait studio to the byways of Appalachia
Armenia gets its due
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shines a spotlight on the impressive cultural oeuvre of an overlooked civilization.
Traces of art at the National Portrait Gallery
Touted as the first exhibition of its kind, Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now features historical silhouettes alongside analogous work by contemporary artists.