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A vibrant close-up of a patchwork quilt made from diverse fabric scraps, featuring squares with diagonal stripes and prominent X-shaped patterns.

Editors' Welcome

Issue 11.2

Jenni Sorkin, Cyle Metzger, Elizabeth McGoey

A historic coin from Yemen, circa 1695, featuring Arabic script on its surface.

Feature Article

A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695

Artwork by Francis Okin depicting two students intently studying scientific and mathematical concepts, including an atom diagram, against a chalkboard filled with formulas.

Why Federally Funded Art?

Jacqueline Francis, Mary Okin

A mural by Robert Bowles titled "The Story of Food" depicts several figures preparing food in a kitchen, with a real clock integrated into the artwork.

Sargent Johnson’s Athletics: A Modernist Experiment in Public Art

John Bowles

Children joyfully watch a shadow puppet show in a classroom, an activity from a CETA arts program.

ART/WORK: Civic Imagination and the Legacy of the CETA Arts Programs

Molly Garfinkel, Jodi Waynberg

A large, colorful community mural depicting figures and abstract designs covers a building wall, with smaller art panels below, overlooking an artificial turf field with a stage.

Growing Up in a CETA City

Makeda Best

Event poster with graphic blue, green, and black illustration of a silhouetted city skyline in front of abstract green treetops, with red-and-white starburst shapes beyond, below a blue sky. The poster's header reads "Western Addition Cultural Center First Annual Summer Arts Explosion," with dates, featured performers, and contact information printed below.

Federal Funding, Local Practice, and Teaching Art History Through CETA in San Francisco

Elizabeth Fair

The Le Conte School building features two large, vibrant murals on its facade, depicting a tree of life and a diverse community scene.

Investing in Artists: Ripples of Return

Deborah Cullinan

A 1934 watercolor painting by John Marin features an expressive, semi-abstract figure with brown skin and bright blue eyes, set against a blue and grey background.

The Whitewashing of John Marin

James Denison

A typewritten letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, dated July 31, 1933, expresses discouragement about mural paintings to "Dear George."

“I can’t have a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin’s head on the Justice Building”: Words FDR Never Said

Robert W. Cherny

A painting by Beauford Delaney from 1949 depicting a snowy landscape with bare trees and several stylized streetlights.

On White Surfaces: Beauford Delaney and Georgia O’Keeffe at An American Place

Tara Kohn

A collection of colorful handwritten thank-you notes and postcards expresses gratitude for the "Save Our Signs" project's efforts to combat censorship and preserve accurate history at US National Park Sites.

Digital Dialogues

Save Our Signs: A Crowdsourced Project to Combat Censorship at US National Park Sites

Lena Bohman, Molly Blake, Jenny McBurney, Amelia Palacios, Henrik Schönemann

A 19th-century American landscape painting shows two men on a rocky precipice overlooking a vast valley, with the overlaid title "Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century

Reviewed by Melissa Geisler Trafton

Portrait of artist Mary Cassatt.

Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy

Reviewed by Allison Perelman

An Indigenous ledger drawing depicts a tribal encampment with tipis, figures engaged in hunting, and a ceremonial gathering around a central pole.

Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome

Reviewed by Yve Chavez

Interior of the modernist Hagberg House, featuring a woman and child at a dining table and a living area with large windows overlooking a garden.

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

Reviewed by Eva Hagberg

A black and white diptych featuring a PaJaMa photograph of a woman and nude man on a beach, juxtaposed with a George Platt Lynes photograph of two nude men.

Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Reviewed by Miriam Kienle

A bright gallery displays an exhibition of colorful African American quilts, with several large textile pieces hanging on white walls and smaller items on a table.

Exhibition Review

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

Reviewed by Berit Potter

An art exhibition space features a wall with the title "Southern Modern: American Art 1915-1955" and several framed paintings on display.

Exhibition Review

Southern/Modern

Reviewed by Claire Ittner

An exhibition installation showcases 1940s art and design, featuring mid-century modern furniture, women's fashion, abstract art, and patterned textiles in a gallery setting.

Exhibition Review

Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s

Reviewed by Maggie North

A gallery view of the Elizabeth Catlett exhibition, "A Black Revolutionary Artist," featuring several of her sculptures.

Exhibition Review

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist

Reviewed by Ebonie Pollock

An art installation by Dario Robleto features numerous colorful butterflies and moths perched on small, dark and light skull fragments, displayed on golden rods and white pedestals.

Exhibition Review

Dario Robleto: The Signal

Reviewed by Alexander Betz

A sculptural installation by Myburgh features a horizontal row of textured, organic ceramic forms in mottled red, orange, and black, casting shadows on a grey wall.

Exhibition Review

Call Home

Reviewed by Brittany Myburgh

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

CFP: PANORAMA SEEKS CONTENT FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON U.S. 250th ANNIVERSARY

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

CFN: PANORAMA SEEKS DIGITAL DIALOGUES SECTION EDITORS

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

SEEKING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR IN MEMORIAM

The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

End-of-Year Appeal