Pocket Review
Thomas Hart Benton's Sanitized American Idyll
His ambition to capture the full experience of living in the United States had its limits.
Thomas Hart Benton
News
Petition to Remove University Mural Depicting KKK Rally Sparks Controversy
A panel from Thomas Hart Benton's epic mural "A Social History of Indiana" (1933) regularly becomes the target of removal campaigns.
In Brief
Politician Stupidly Leans on Thomas Hart Benton Mural to Take Notes
There are many things one might do while inside a room whose walls are lined with a historic Thomas Hart Benton mural.
Art
An Era-Defining 1930s Mural of American Excess and Industry Is Revived
After its acquisition in 2012, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is debuting Thomas Hart Benton's 1930s "America Today" mural not as a painting, but as a room.
Art
Hitler's Wanted Poster and Other Visual Snapshots of New York During WWII
The New-York Historical Society has a massive show that explores the role of New York in World War II, WWII & NYC. While the front lines of the Second World War raged across the oceans, the great American metropolis gave more than most as it mobilized its citizenry, its resources, and its elites to