Daniel Chester French was at work in his Massachusetts summer home and studio in 1914, when he was commissioned to … More
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Nemours Estate Gardens
If the gardens and mansion at Alfred I. du Pont’s Delaware estate, Nemours, were built to impress, they were also … More
Dance in the Time of Covid: A Close Up of the New York City Dance Scene: Where are we now and where are we going?
Live dance has been particularly devastated by the pandemic. Dancers are most alive when they breathe the same air, touch … More
Art in the Time of Covid, Part II
Artists not only reflect the state of humanity but often help to show the path to what we can become … More
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Gift to the City of Boston
Wandering through her neo-renaissance Florentine palazzo, now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you can’t help wishing you’d been invited to … More
Challenge and Transformation at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America
The 40th anniversary of New York City’s Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in 2020 was anything but typical of … More
Glass Flowers and Ethnic Art at Harvard
Harvard University is known for the superb collections in the Harvard Art Museums, a combination of three former museums, where … More
Sharing Immigrants’ Stories at New York’s Tenement Museum
While many house museums in America present the lives of famous or wealthy individuals, the Tenement Museum on New York … More
Delaware Art Museum – Giving Illustrators their Due
In the hierarchy of artists, illustrators have been never been accorded the standing of the so-called fine arts. And yet … More
Norman Rockwell Museum: Chronicling American Life
One of America’s most widely recognized artists even nearly a half-century after his death, Norman Rockwell lived and worked in … More
