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Art Museum

Jean-Léon Gérôme, L’Eminence Grise paris 1874 impressionism
Marion Maneker • September 10, 2024

Legends of the Fall

From an exhibition featuring the young Impressionists in their rebel heyday to a show dissecting modern Black representation in the art world, here’s what I’m looking forward to seeing this fall.
Marion Maneker • August 18, 2024
Schwarzman’s Bid for Immortality
steve Schwarzman
The hedge fund billionaire’s Newport restoration, a stunning cliffside estate to rival the Vanderbilts’ old Breakers, will be turned into a museum after his and his wife’s deaths. Art market sources say it’s less about the collection than creating a monument to his own Gilded Age legacy.
Marion Maneker • August 6, 2024
Gundlach & Loaded
Jeffrey Gundlach
Jeffrey Gundlach climbed a mountain of art collecting that culminated in acquiring the Mondrian of his dreams. But after he bagged his last trophy, he turned to museum building. A look at the billionaire bond king’s art investment thesis, his views on the market, and why he’s reviving the museum that launched his collecting journey.
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Meeting of Artists in Isabey’s Studio
Marion Maneker • August 4, 2024
A Creole in Napoleon’s Paris
Born in Guadeloupe to a sugar plantation owner and a freedwoman, Guillaume Lethière rose to become the head of the French Academy in Rome, but is now almost entirely forgotten. The Clark Institute and the Louvre are mounting an eye-opening revival.
marisol portrait
Marion Maneker • July 30, 2024
Who Will Save Your Marisol?
In the 1960s, Marisol held the art world in the palm of her hand. Laconic, witty, and wealthy, her shows attracted long lines and crowds. At the height of her fame, she walked away, but never stopped making art.
buffalo akg art museum
Marion Maneker • July 28, 2024
A Rust Belt Retrospective
A $230 million expansion of Buffalo’s groundbreaking fine art museum has anchored the city’s revival—offering a blueprint for other once-great American hubs looking to overlay a cosmopolitan future on a broad-shouldered past.
Mary Cassatt art exhibit
Marion Maneker • July 9, 2024
Yo Mary Cassatt!
Philadelphia, which eschews its reputation as a blue-collar sixth borough, is actually a sneaky-great art city. And never more so than now.
Pierre Bonnard painting art museum
Marion Maneker • April 28, 2024
Big in D.C. & A Boesky Discovery
News and notes on the Phillips Collection’s huge Bonnard show, and Boesky’s just-closed exhibit of a very, very new painter.
Alvin Bragg’s efforts have resulted in several museums parting with their Schieles.
Eriq Gardner • November 6, 2023
The Art World’s Russian Prisoner Dilemma
A fight over a century-old portrait, which ended up in Chicago after being uprooted by the Nazis, has the potential to reshape the landscape of art ownership disputes and even draw in the Biden administration.
“Yes, I want enlightenment for white people. I just don’t want my own growth to depend on it,” Thurston writes.
Baratunde Thurston • February 19, 2023
The Black Liberation Paradox
Modern emancipation needs to be more than a function of liberating white minds. Black people also need to find joy on our own terms. What’s the point of saying “Black Lives Matter” if that life is defined solely by struggle?