Art Review
Lisa Yuskavage’s White Hot Women
Often considered provocative, her nude women embody a patriarchal status quo of feminine desirability, and the privileges that come with it.
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Art Review
The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron
It is crucial to grapple with the colonial structures that helped sustain the lives and work of the two 19th-century contemporaries, both celebrated as feminist heroines.
Art Review
Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
Art Review
The Morgan Museum’s Kafka Show Is … Kafkaesque
In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach.
Art Review
A Celebrated Librarian’s Concealed Life
Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.
Art
How Beatrix Potter Hopped Into Our Hearts
An exhibition at the Morgan Library pays tribute to the illustrator’s prowess as a naturalist, storyteller, mycologist, and sheep farmer.
Art
The Extraordinary Story of Black Librarian Belle da Costa Greene
A new exhibition at the Morgan Library explores the legacy of its inaugural director, who amassed a trove of rare books and prints while passing as a White woman in segregated America.
Art
The Medieval Dance Between Greed and God
Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality at the Morgan Library proffers example after example of the sad fate of those who hoard money.
Art
A Tantalizing Glimpse Into a Renaissance Art Family Drama
Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico offer hints of whatever subterranean Oedipal struggles played out between them.
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MoMA and Morgan Library Among Museums Returning Nazi-Looted Art
Seven Egon Schiele works that belonged to Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum were handed back to his heirs.
Art
How Blaise Cendrars Blazed a Trail Into Modernity
He integrated the language of advertising and journalism into his poetry, and was influenced by the rapid tempo of jazz.
Art
A Step-by-Step Guide to Making an Illuminated Manuscript
At the Morgan Library in New York, an unfinished manuscript from 1400s France can teach us how Medieval artists crafted their exquisitely detailed works.