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Impressionism
Grace Hartigan: Adventures in Painting
Grace Hartigan, a dauntless heroine of Abstract Expressionism, used figurative imagery to reveal the secrets of a self forged in art.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Murals for Motor City
An exhibition of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo’s work at the Detroit Institute of Arts tells stories of painting, politics, and personal exploration.
Kurt Seligmann: The Magus in the Mirror
The Surrealist painter and occultist writer Kurt Seligmann is having his first retrospective in 55 years.
Wood Sculpture: In the American Grain
Contemporary wood artists are letting their medium escape from functionality and traditional craft concepts into realms of pure form, texture, and color.
Czech Art Glass Movement: All-Star Cast
Nurtured by a Communist regime in the mid-20th century, the Czech art glass movement continues to astound the world in the 21st.
Chicago Museums: Windy City Wonders
From Audubon prints to Imagist painting to Asian antiquities, Chicago has offerings for all tastes.
Sebastiao Salgado: The Eye of the Heart
Sebastião Salgado’s visually stunning photographs accord equal respect to suffering humanity and primal nature.
Peter Paul Rubens: Weaving a Narrative
In the service of the Catholic Church and the Spanish royal family, Peter Paul Rubens conceived a cycle of religious images, painted them, and had them rendered as sumptuous tapestries, now on view in a once-in-a lifetime traveling exhibition.
John Marin: The Romantic Cubist
Rejecting urbanism and irony, John Marin used European avant-garde methods to make a quintessentially American art.


































