Art Review: Winslow Homer Show at Met a Waste

Greetings from Alabama. I’m here in Huntsville on a swing through the South leading to a wedding in Nashville. Yesterday, I visited the lovely Huntsville Museum of Art. Huntsville is a great town packed with first-rate antebellum architecture. It’s a lively cultural center, too. I’ve never been here and knew Huntsville only as a center for military missile research and manufacturing.

So many church spires and missiles, I’m not shy to say, are a comfort in these parlous times. Values are strong here. I spent an afternoon earlier in the week at the Birmingham Museum of Art. It’s an impressive, encyclopedic civic museum. The Deep South is renowned for elegant interiors and gracious living, so it’s no surprise to see that the museum has splendid decorative arts. I’ll write about both of these museums in the next few weeks.

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Brian T. Allen

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

Greetings from Alabama. I’m here in Huntsville on a swing through the South leading to a wedding in Nashville. Yesterday, I visited the lovely Huntsville Museum of Art. Huntsville is a great town packed with first-rate antebellum architecture. It’s a lively cultural center, too. I’ve never been here and knew Huntsville only as a center for military missile research and manufacturing.

So many church spires and missiles, I’m not shy to say, are a comfort in these parlous times. Values are strong here. I spent an afternoon earlier in the week at the Birmingham Museum of Art. It’s an impressive, encyclopedic civic museum. The Deep South is renowned for elegant interiors and gracious living, so it’s no surprise to see that the museum has splendid decorative arts. I’ll write about both of these museums in the next few weeks.