Book Review
The Many Lives of Frederic Edwin Church
Victoria Johnson’s biography is a nuanced portrait of the artist, whose landscapes conveyed the anxieties of a nation struggling over slavery, war, and disunion.
Frederic Edwin Church
Art
The Grisly and Heroic Propaganda of the Doomed Franklin Expedition
This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror.
Art
The Strange Union of Contemporary Art and the Hudson River School
HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church's architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.
Art
Hudson River School Painters' Homes Make Way for Contemporary Art
Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the "physical cornerstone of American art," as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it.