
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
December 2, 2024

Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
November 21, 2024
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American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
November 18, 2024But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
October 27, 2024As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...
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The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
July 8, 2024His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...
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Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
June 19, 2024This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
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Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
May 29, 2024Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
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Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
May 15, 2024Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
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Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
May 9, 2024More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...