Posts by Sarah E. Fensom
The Eye in the Wild State
A new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art searches for the surrealistic touches in photography of the 1920s through ’40s.
Read MoreSolo Goya
A new exhibition explores the variety of Goya’s preoccupations—from war to witchcraft, royalty to riffraff.
Read MoreCharles Burchfield: Back to Nature
After a detour into social realism, Charles Burchfield returned to his first love, landscape painting, but with new techniques that let the viewer partake of the artist’s mystical, multi-sensory experience.
Read MorePoints of Correspondence
A new exhibition at the Phillips Collection examines the relationship between the Neo-Impressionists and their Symbolist peers.
Read MorePortrait
Jamie Wyeth gets a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston that looks beyond his status as American art royalty.
Read MoreNippon Moderne
The little-known phenomenon of Japanese Art Deco is elaborately showcased at the Seattle Art Museum.
Read MoreFinely Woven
For acclaimed modernist sculptor Ruth Asawa, art and family were intrinsically meshed together.
Read MoreUnmasked Man
The J. Paul Getty Museum stages a rare opportunity to view James Ensor in all his glory.
Read MoreNot Made by Hands
Wrested from the depths of the earth but possessing a beauty that seems almost unearthly, fine mineral specimens are now being collected as natural works of art.
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