2025
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, a collaborative exhibition that explores the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the American landscape, from its origins in 19th-century painting to the present.
The Connecticut museum exhibits stellar drawings from its holdings, spanning centuries and featuring such artists as Gainsborough, Ingres, Courbet, Degas, Picasso and Mir贸.
Artist Steffani Jemison debuts a new multimedia installation of sculpture, lenticular prints, and drawings on brass and silvered glass as the latest iteration in fifty years of the MATRIX contemporary art series.
A rarely-seen trove of European drawings spanning 500 years will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from January 16鈥揂pril 27, 2025.
When Daniel Wadsworth founded his eponymous museum in his home city of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1842, the collection comprised 79 paintings and a handful of sculptures...
2024
Artist Alan Ruiz debuts a new body of work made in response to an unrealized 2002 plan to expand the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
Through floral motifs, geometric patterns, calligraphy, and immersive video, Divine Geometry presents the artistic language of Islamic art through objects rarely seen by the public.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquired an exceptionally rare 14th-century Italian painting, the Rasini Crucifixion, (c.1350).
This week in Newly Reviewed, Walker Mimms covers the overlooked artist Ker-Xavier Roussel, Fritz Scholder鈥檚 paintings and a group show in a modest office-like space.
Styling Identities pushes the boundaries of museum display to incorporate local communities and global art through the theme of hair.
Kyle Dunn鈥檚 luminous paintings dramatize themes of intimacy and alienation.
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, the artist鈥檚 cinematic tableaux announce his arrival on the mainstage of queer figurative painting.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents figurative painter Kyle Dunn in his first museum exhibition featuring recent works and new paintings created in response to the museum鈥檚 extraordinary collection.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquired Striding Mars (Mars Gradivus) a rare and important work by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna.
The 445-year-old marble has journeyed far, lost fingers and been buried. Now, with help from TEFAF, the goddess of love has been restored to glory.