Art Review: Munson Museum in Utica, New York

Slow news week, eh? Best to take us out of ourselves and go to Utica. Utica’s no Paris, but with a superb art museum like the Munson-Williams-Proctor, it’s no tumbleweed town, either. Smack in the center of this small city in the Mohawk Valley is one of the Northeast’s marquee collections, a good art school, a landmark Modernist building, and a premiere performance space, making what’s now called simply the Munson a much loved and revered culture mecca.

I spent Sunday afternoon there as part of my look at the arts in New York State outside the Big Apple behemoth and its suburbs. I’ll hit Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo in the next few days and, God willing, Niagara Falls, which, in addition to copious cascades, has a small history museum showing more than barrels.

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Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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Slow news week, eh? Best to take us out of ourselves and go to Utica. Utica’s no Paris, but with a superb art museum like the Munson-Williams-Proctor, it’s no tumbleweed town, either. Smack in the center of this small city in the Mohawk Valley is one of the Northeast’s marquee collections, a good art school, a landmark Modernist building, and a premiere performance space, making what’s now called simply the Munson a much loved and revered culture mecca.

I spent Sunday afternoon there as part of my look at the arts in New York State outside the Big Apple behemoth and its suburbs. I’ll hit Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo in the next few days and, God willing, Niagara Falls, which, in addition to copious cascades, has a small history museum showing more than barrels.