In His Garage, an Untrained Artist Created a Work of Sublime Divinity
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, James Hampton’s strange and transporting magnum opus. Chris Gunn For some 14…
For 100 Years, Santa Feans Have Burned New Mexico’s Boogeyman in a ‘Sacred Rite of Purification, Laughter and Rebirth’
Heather Mundt Freelance travel writer Each year, thousands of people gather at Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy Park on the Friday of Labor Day weekend to face their proverbial archnemesis, a…
Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces
By Jackie Wullschläger Author, Monet: The Restless Vision The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude…
An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on Display
Iznik tile, 16th to 17th century, Syria or Turkey. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art When Hamid Hemat accepted a curatorial post at Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum in 2022, the refugee from…
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
By Mark Schapiro Photographs by Simona Ghizzoni When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing…