Art Review: Majolica Mania Show at Walters Art Museum

The new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore — Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 — is delightful, even glorious, informative, and rigorous.

The museum world is filled these days with so many pious drudges, so many clapping seals. And art about why it’s hot in the summer, how victimhood is a many-splendored thing, and what we can do to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and mediocrity.

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Brian T. Allen

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

The new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore — Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 — is delightful, even glorious, informative, and rigorous.

The museum world is filled these days with so many pious drudges, so many clapping seals. And art about why it’s hot in the summer, how victimhood is a many-splendored thing, and what we can do to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and mediocrity.