Feature
Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition
“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.
Carmen C. Bambach
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2019
MoMA’s recognition of modernism’s multiverse, alongside artist-led drives for greater transparency on the part of museums and their boards, brought a twinge of optimism to the close of the year.
Books
A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
Announcement
Inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence Recognizes Immigrant Accomplishment in Art History
This year's $100,000 prize was bestowed to art historian and curator Carmen C. Bambach of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.