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California Impressionism: Paintings from Irvine Collection at U. New...
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, California’s spectacular landscape was the catalyst for a profusion of light-filled paintings. Artists determined to capture its vivid colors...
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High Museum, Atlanta, with Modern Artists, Spouses Kahlo and Rivera
Largely based on some 200-plus murals in Mexico City and several in the United States, Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) was among the most renowned artists of his generation. His second wife, Frida Kahlo...
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New York Historical Society with Comprehensive Exhibit of James Audubon...
John James Audubon, Carolina Parakeet, (extinct) Havell pl. 26 (1825). All images collection NY Historical Society. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and...
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Arts and Crafts Styling of Early 20th C. Architects, Greene & Greene
Gamble House, front elevation, after the completion of the 2004 conservation project. Photo © Alex Vertikoff. Experiencing the creative work of architectural brothers, Greene & Greene, is like...
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Heard Museum, Phoenix, Channels ‘Modern Spirit: The Abstract Art of George...
‘Spirit Path, New Day, Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape’ (1990), acrylic and pastel on paper, 22 x 30″. Coll. Minnesota Museum of American Art. In terms of art history and identity politics,...
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Philadelphia’s Penn Museum Cooking with ‘Culinary Expeditions: A Celebration...
Food and—more specifically—its consumption are intimately linked to our identity as social beings, anchoring us together as families, communities and nations. Wolves consume calories the same way each...
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‘Vida y Drama de México': Mid-20th C. Political Posters at Yale Univ. Art...
Melancholy defines revolutions; the triumph is always followed by the terror or the bureaucracy. But before that inevitability asserts itself, there is always an exuberant conviction that it will not...
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A Gourmand’s Guide to Louisville, Kentucky’s Most Happening City
Part One features two of Louisville’s most popular hotels, one overflowing with museum-quality works of art, along with eight of the city’s most-talked about restaurants with special attention paid to...
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217 Films New Essay in Film, ‘Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA’
Work/Welfare Line, New York (c. 1935) There are still many people, perhaps our grandparents or great-grandparents, who can vividly recall the Great Depression of the 1930s. Memories of hardship, loss...
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The Art of Killing: ‘Arts of War’ at Cambridge’s Harvard Peabody
To the cynic, humankind is, at its very core, drawn towards cruelty and brutality. Even before our ancestors mastered the art of metalworking we were inventing more efficient ways to annihilate those...
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