Click Here to Read:  The 2017 Whitney Biennial—a survey of contemporary American art: What does it show? By Clare Hurley on the World Socialist Web Site on May 25, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Botticelli’s Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty: The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment by Susan Silas on the HyperAllergic website on May 19, 2017.

Click Here to Read: The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters: The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic Website on May 18, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light District: Through guidebooks and rare artifacts, the New Orleans Historic Collection considers the complicated legacy of Storyville, the city’s former red light district by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on May 18, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Studying the Design of a 19th-Century Mental Asylum: An exhibition at the National Building Museum explores St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC, and the history of mental health architecture in the United States by Allison Meieron the HyperAllergic Website on May 12, 2017.

Click Here to Read: The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial: Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings by Anne Swartz on the HyperAllergic Website on May 11, 2017.

Click Here to Read:   What a Renaissance artist taught Freud about memory: A new book looks at the psychoanalyst’s favourite Old Mater fresco—and his inability to remember the artist’s name by Pac Porbick on the Heffel website on May 10, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Should the National Cathedral remove its Robert E. Lee windows? It’s complicated By John Reeves in The Washington Post on April 28, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Philip Johnson’s First House Needs a New Owner: The owners of the concrete residence known as the Booth House in Bedford, New York, are now trying to sell Johnson’s 1946 building within a month by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on April 24, 2017,

Interior of the Booth House (all photos by Robert Gregson unless otherwise noted, courtesy Matt Damora)

Click Here to Read:   The Painter and the Novelist: Review of: Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, February 8–June 4, 2017 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Sarah Milroy and Ian A.C. Dejardin, and Philip Wilson, sex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion an exhibition at Two Temple Place, London, January 28–April 23, 2017, Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, Catalog of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, by Frances Spalding, London: National Portrait Gallery, 191 pp., £22.50 (paper), Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel by Priya Parmar and Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read by Barbara Lounsberry Reviewed by Paul Levy in the New York Review of Books. MAY 11, 2017 Issue.

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/Estate of Vanessa Bell/Henrietta Garnett
 Vanessa Bell: Self-Portrait, circa 1915