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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Goes Big and Goes Winslow Homer in a Splendid Show | National Review
The museum displays all of its nearly 50 Homer watercolors, saluting Homer, Boston’s native son, and more than a century of collecting. Source link
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At the Guggenheim, a Dynamic Survey for an Expressionist Maestra
I arrived at the Guggenheim for “Contours of a World,” the new show devoted to the late German artist Gabriele Münter, with what I thought was a deep appreciation...
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun on Settling Their Differences in ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’
Young was drawn to the time-jumps in Joseph’s story, which follows two friends from the age of eight to 38, with each scene moving either 15 years forward or...
On Opposite Ends of Manhattan, a Tale of Two ‘Tartuffe’s
Two distinct off-Broadway productions of the 1664 Molière play “Tartuffe” bookend each other this month, one starring André De Shields and one with Matthew Broderick. We talked to the...
A Century Under the Influence of Edward Gorey
To wit, in “Something Else Entirely” there’s a sprawling illustration of women in black, men collapsed at their feet and peering out cautiously from their bustle skirts for Helen...
On the Practical Magic of Joan Mitchell’s Personal Style
As Rose implied, Mitchell was not an obviously fashionable person. It seems highly plausible she felt the same way about clothes as she did about her work. “My paintings...
Sigrid Sandström’s Emotional Landscapes
In the year 2000, while she was getting her MFA at Yale, the Swedish artist Sigrid Sandström ran away to Maine for a summer residency at the Skowhegan School...
Trump fires all members of Commission of Fine Arts
The White House fired the six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency that advises the president, Congress and others on matters of design and aesthetics....
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Bess Wohl and Whitney White on the Radical Relevance of ‘Liberation’
A look into America’s political past, Liberation is also a personal story, inspired by Wohl’s own mother, who worked at Ms. magazine during the playwright’s youth. But the Tony-nominated...
In “Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens,” a Legendary African Photographer Gets His Biggest Showcase Yet
Hand-woven and dyed fabrics, elaborate gold and beaded jewelry, women with hennaed hands and feet, and military men in suits fill the work of photographer Seydou Keïta (1921–2001), the...
