Once a cheese factory, now an of-the-moment art, performance, and culinary space, a brand-new Crystal Bridges contemporary arts spin-off venue, champions the role of the arts in everyday life today. […]
Art of the Moment in the Heartland
The Marvels of Vik Muniz
Conceptual artist-photographer Vik Muniz is intent on meaningful engagement. “Art is not something you can make yourself,” he says, “— you need a spectator, a viewer, an audience. It is a collaboration.” Therein lies the marvel of Vik Muniz’ work. […]
The Sacred Stained Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Glittering exhibition focuses on the design and production of Tiffany’s ecclesiastical window commissions, and explores these works in the context of both the art and social history of the period. At the heart of the exhibition are eleven outstanding, religiously themed windows made between 1880 and 1925 that demonstrate the signature designs, working methods, techniques, and production styles of Tiffany and his workshops. […]
“Bill Viola: The Raft” speaks to the resilience of humanity.
Ordinary people overwhelmed with an unexpected calamity display a range of responses to the crisis in this highly-affective video installation. It is a powerful statement of the resilience of humanity. […]
Taking It Up A Notch: The Norton Museum of Art
Raising the bar, the new Norton Museum of Art is interpreting its 21st-century role in ways that go beyond the need for greater collection and exhibition diversity. […]
President & Mrs. Obama Portraits to Tour U.S.
Announcing a five-city tour of the Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama. […]
An Awesome Surprise: The Morse Museum of American Art
The Morse is world-renowned for its comprehensive collection of works by the American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany, revealing that his creative talent and the output of his workshop soared well beyond jewel-like lamps and leaded glass windows. […]
Art of Native America: An exhibition of masterworks of indigenous art
A spectacular collection of Native American art is on long-term view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. We couldn’t ask for more in an exhibition, for the purely aesthetic pleasure these objects give, for gaining a fuller understanding of their cultural significance, and for seeing indigenous art in the context of American art history. […]
Emil Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes
The names of two men — both sons of considerable wealth, born in the 1870s, and both culturally- and creatively-inclined — were widely recognized in the early years of the 20th century. Their celebrity was well-deserved at the time — and deserves to live on. Sergei Diaghilev (1872 – 1929) was a Russian art critic, […]
The Art of Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg is not a name everyone would recognize. But drop half the letters and it becomes an adjective in the dictionary! Every English dictionary has a “Rube Goldberg” entry. Ours says, “ingeniously or unnecessarily complicated in design or construction.“ You know his name, you know his whacky contraption illustrations, you may even […]