Archive for March 2014
History on a Pedestal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how the American West was bronzed.
Read MoreMoving Pictures
With a historic acquisition The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston stages its first Pictorialist photography show in decades.
Read MoreThe Gorgeous Sublime
Paul Jenkins eschewed Abstract Expressionism’s inward gaze, aiming to reflect nature’s beauty with sensuous pours of paint.
Read MoreOne Piece at a Time
The craftsmen of the studio furniture movement have always been American originals, working independently of each other, following their own visions, making everything by hand.
Read MoreStar Man
An exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum explores Miró’s later, lesser-known works, while telling the story of a peaceful artist living in a politically turbulent world.
Read MoreThe Poet’s Painter
Intimately connected to the literary world, Joan Mitchell devised an abstract language of her own to make feelings visible.
Read MoreWinning Bronze
The beauty and grandeur of Chinese bronzes are equaled only by their historical fascination.
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