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Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/27/19–12/03/19
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Feverish Architectural Fantasies at the Menil Drawing Institute
Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s frustrated architectural ambitions found their outlet in bold, sometimes sexually-charged drawings
Homage to Ruskin at Yale
Ruskin would publish prolifically until his death in 1900, in the fields of art (five volumes of Modern Painters), architecture (The Stones of Venice and The Seven Lamps of Architecture), even a treatise on economics, Unto This Last, from which an encyclopedic exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, celebrating the bicentennial of the critic’s birth this year, takes its name.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/21/19–11/26/19
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J. M. W. Turner travels to Connecticut
The Mystic Seaport Museum’s current show of ninety-two watercolors, along with four oils and a sketchbook, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, on loan from the Tate Britain in London, is rather a spectacular curatorial coup…
Twelfth time’s a charm at the American Art Fair
The little gem of an art fair that ushers in the holiday season on New York’s Upper East Side turns twelve this year.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/13/19–11/20/19
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Salon: Art + Design 2019 Highlights
There’s a unique atmosphere at the Salon: Art + Design, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York for its eighth edition this week. Historical and contemporary artworks and objects co-exist in unusual harmony at the fair, perhaps because exhibitors there don’t simply put things on display—they create environments.
Checking in with Edward Hopper
The American artist Edward Hopper had a deep personal and professional interest in hotels, motels, tourist homes, and the wide scope of hospitality services—including the vast infrastructure of restaurants, entertainments, and staff servicing these institutions.