Stained-Glass Masters: John La Farge
The Judson Church windows fill the space with truth that’s ethereal and radiant, but truth it is.
Art-Rich Asheville Gets a New Museum Building
And it’s a big hit, expressing the spirit of the community.
Aphrodite, Heracles, and an Ephebe in a Virtual Arts Fair
Plus a tiara, a Degas, and some nature mysticism: The annual European Fine Art Fair triumphs, even in its COVID incarnation.
Go South, Art Lovers, for Beautiful Craft and Design
North Carolina’s Mint Museum offers up quintessentially American fare to entice children and sophisticates alike.
Ava Gardner, Unapologetic Sexpot, Still Bewitches
A museum in her hometown pays homage to the star in all her complexity — larger than life, lusty, and lonely in the end.
Salem Witch-Trials Show: Hysteria Then and Now
Barking kids, crazy ministers, and an overworked hangman: It’s all there at the Peabody Essex Museum.
COVID Cash Battles in Museum World
Give relief to theaters, operas, and other live-performance venues first. Most museums, especially the big ones, don’t need the money, and they’ve failed the public.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life & Loves in a Moving New Biography
A review of Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Nicholas A. Basbanes.