Fall 2018 (4.2) Archives - Panorama

Features

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“A Kind of Traveling Gazette”: Edward Lamson Henry’s The Latest Village Scandal, Gossip, and History at the Dawn of Sensational Journalism

October 24, 2018 / Feature Article

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Elevated: Along the Fringes of 291 Fifth Avenue

October 24, 2018 / Feature Article

In the Round

Thomas Cole's five-part series "The Course of Empire" is displayed on a curved dark blue wall in a museum gallery.

An Interview with the Curators of Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings

William L. Coleman, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Tim Barringer

Research Notes

A vintage world time zone chart, likely a collage element by Robert Rauschenberg, featuring a large pink central clock for Washington surrounded by smaller clocks for various global cities.

Looking for Love: Identifying Robert Rauschenberg’s Collage Elements in a Lost, Early Work

Greg Allen

Painting of actress Maude Adams in character as L'Aiglon.

Dating Miss Maude Adams, as “L’Aiglon”

Leslie Anne Anderson

Painting of 2 boys and 1 man sitting in an alley space

Playing the Race Card: Thomas Le Clear’s High, Jack, Game

Tanya Sheehan

Painting of a Spanish girl wearing a red dress with red flowers in her hair

The Paintings Left Behind: Two New Paintings by Mary Cassatt from Seville

M. Elizabeth Boone

Bully Pulpit

Bird sculpture made from wood and shell

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Textualizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Querying the Methods of Art History

An exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum features T.C. Cannon's paintings *Self-Portrait in a Dali Spring* and *Two Guns Arikara*, an acoustic guitar, and lyrics to "

Karen Kramer

Karen Kramer, Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture and Director of the Native American Fellowship Program, Peabody Essex Museum

A light wood paddle blade is decorated with Northwest Coast Indigenous art featuring a central anthropomorphic figure flanked by stylized animal forms, rendered in reddish-brown, black, and silver.

Jami Powell

Jami Powell, Associate Curator of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

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

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heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw), Senior Curator, American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, Oklahoma City

Book Reviews

Book cover of "Picturing"

Terra Foundation Essays, volumes 1–4

Derrick R. Cartwright

Book cover for 'Boston Furniture 1700-1900' featuring an antique dark wood sofa with orange upholstery.

Boston Furniture, 1700–1900

Ethan W. Lasser

An early American allegorical illustration depicts Fame blowing a trumpet towards a figure of Liberty, who holds a starry shield and a banner proclaiming "Where Liberty Dwells There".

Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America

Julia A. Sienkewicz

Title graphic featuring the word "Lust" in large, decorative black letters with gold outlines on a red background.

Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

Mary Campbell

Book cover for "The Other American Moderns" by Shi Pu Wang

The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa

Diana Linden

A painting by Rufino Tamayo featuring two white crescent moons, a stylized figure in a white dress, a red heart, and a spoked wheel.

Tamayo: The New York Years

Mark A. Castro

A painting features a nude figure descending by parachute through an abstract, cloudy sky.

American Women Artists, 1935–1970: Gender, Culture, and Politics

Rachel Middleman

Exhibition Reviews

Drawing of a building-in-progress, but not completed

Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire and Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

David Brody

Frederic Church's painting, 'Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives,' depicts the ancient city under a dramatic, sunlit sky with travelers in the foreground.

Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage and Costume & Custom: Middle Eastern Threads at Olana

Katherine Manthorne

Abstract style painting of textured lines of various colors including blue, black, yellow, and red

Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge

Tobias Wofford

An art exhibition features a large white wall with the black text "EAT SUGAR SPEND MONEY" and a side wall covered in a repeating pattern of Ronald Reagan's face within orange and black concentric circles.

Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s

Andrew Wasserman

Installation wall with 6 paintings of various colors

Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen

Andrea Douglas

Painting of a wedding with family looking on in a garden area with yellow flowers

Faith Ringgold: Paintings and Story Quilts, 1964–2017

Debra Hanson

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Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era

Mia Lopez

art installation of 6 colored pillars around the room in the colors black, yellow, red, and white

In the Tower: Anne Truitt

Mark L. Hanin

Illustration of 2 plants with yellow and pink buds

Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863)

Amber Harper