Works by German-born Jewish artist David Ludwig Bloch (1910-2002), who spent 4 weeks in Dachau following the pogrom night of 1938. He was able to leave, first to Shanghai, and from 1949 to the USA. Others were not so lucky. 'My Family History'; 'Crying Hands', late 20th c. #HolocaustMemorialDay

“…a singular delicacy, an attention to subtlety and play that is all her own.” Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of Sufie Berger’s solo show! 🖼️💚

the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design

"Berger relishes that freedom. Her figures move through the world with intention, never stopping for air." My review of Sufie Berger's solo show for Artforum www.artforum.com/events/sufie...

"All his life, Salviati instilled in his glassmakers a devotion to traditional artistry, to the fanciful, to work that dazzles." My essay on Antonio Salviati for Smithsonian magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555

“All empty souls tend to extreme #opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability.” - #WBYeats

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches." My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.

'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.

Emily Brontë, 1846 #BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë "No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear." 🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral

"Brady had an artist’s eye. He knew what light, what turn of the elbow or shift of weight, could transform a person into a vision." My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Catherine of Aragon w/ her pet monkey. The most fun she ever had! Painted in 1525 by Lucas Horenbout, whose day is today.

Browne homed in on people as they are: "at a standstill," unknown to themselves. To her, the role of the artist was to tease out the grotesque, what’s hidden under the surface. To see should not "invoke fear so much as interest, action." My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“Hemphill found that transient home in his writing.” A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙

"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame." My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts” buff.ly/bS9glHf

"To be that attentive to nature, to let the world wash over you, seems a particular kind of gift. There is a tenderness to this work, an intimacy. Stay a while, they seem to urge. Go on looking." My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...

“To stand before her tapestries is to follow one thread, then another, never losing the rhythm.” Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷

“What she loved was this, here, now…that somehow, in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things…she survived.” Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown." My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...

"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on." --Simone Weil

'The South Ledges, Appledore.' Childe Hassam spent many summers on Appledore Island, one of the remote islands that make up the Isles of Shoals located off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire; he stayed with his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This work was painted in 1913.

“This is not the world as it is, but as it could be.” Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜

"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be." My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“To sculpt with abandon, to be free…” Enjoyed @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at Buffalo’s AKG.❤️

"Throughout her life, men told Marisol they’d prefer a woman 'who thinks about them all the time.' She had other ideas. . . . 'If you learn to live with yourself, you have achieved something.'" My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...

On Friday I finally got around to visiting a church that had been on my ‘must see’ list for ages now…St. Peter and St. Paul in Pickering, North Yorkshire, with its amazing mid-15th century wall paintings…and I was absolutely not disappointed!

The MFA is considered a terminal degree. Most die of heartbreak.

Finally reading this gem of a novel

“Cassatt relished the details: the graceful cut of a skirt, the supple lines of a hand. Picturing a woman bathing a baby, Cassatt lingers on her lemon-yellow dress, dotted with black, tendril-like branches.” My review of “Mary Cassatt at Work” www.neh.gov/article/inde...