Every year I write about a hundred stories for NR’s readers, reviewing exhibitions but also covering the art market, the tastiest news, and the lay-of-the-land at offbeat places. This year, Picasso, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas got marquee space, but so did the riveting Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, focused on the Kennedy assassination, and the Pequot Museum in southeastern Connecticut. This unusually good tribal museum bookends war, conquest, dispossession, and a new dawn with a hunt for woolly mammoths in the Ice Age and the ca-ching of slot machines at the nearby Pequot casino.
Also figuring in my 2023 journeys were miniskirts, Mayan gods, Meissen cupids, and a bevy of Bonnards to warm body and soul.
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