Visual Arts
Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?
This exhibition is impressive in drawing connections between material goods and labor, creating beauty out of unconventional forms.
The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.
If you are in New York this week there is plenty of art to see. Just a short walk from the Metropolitan Museum is a show that you will probably never see again. You can visit it for free. It closes this weekend.
Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Making the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.
While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.

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