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An Artist’s Realm
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, explores the work of acclaimed artist Matthew Wong
Mediterranean Revival
On the scale of a Greek myth, MILIEU’s Design Editor, along with her extended family, embarked on a tour of Greece and Turkey that revealed the meaning of democracy and familial spirit
Going Natural
As a traveling exhibition of works by Edvard Munch makes clear, the artist invested his scenes of nature with as much emotion and personality as he did his figures
Working Man
George Dunbar’s art is rarely predictable yet always identifiable as his alone. His works include (opening page) Mound Series, composed of acrylic paint applied to envelope paper, and (above) Rouville No. 7, which combines gold leaf with red Louisiana clay.
In Retrospective
For more than eight decades, and continuing still, Alex Katz has painted what he sees at the moment. Now is the moment to view his works at an exhibition mounted by New York’s Guggenheim Museum.
Shared Vision
The imaginative color and poetic firebrand of Milton Avery is revealed in a touring landmark exhibition
A Modern Man
The imaginative color and poetic firebrand of Milton Avery is revealed in a touring landmark exhibition
Woman of Substance
Sir John Soane amassed more than 30,000 architectural drawings. When he ran out of wall and surface space, he put works in drawers and cabinets—some of which have now been opened.
The Art of Collecting
Sir John Soane amassed more than 30,000 architectural drawings. When he ran out of wall and surface space, he put works in drawers and cabinets—some of which have now been opened.
A Building Model
Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek was designing office buildings and embassies, city halls and museums, when few, if any, African American women were part of the profession. What she built still stands.
Fieldwork
In upstate New York, undulating meadows and former farmland now yield bountiful harvests of monumental sculptures. The crops of works change with the seasons.
In Shape
Italian artist Mirco Marchelli looks closely at the world, translating memories, colors, even sounds to his canvases
In Ruins
Using natural light, photographer Nicola Bertellotti captures the natural state of buildings that are forgotten and left to decay. He gives them new life through his work.
The Power of a Fresh Color Palette
THE POWER OF A FRESH COLOR PALETTE With the launch of the new Spring 2021 Color Collection from L’Atelier Paris, the joyful tones of springtime can be experienced [...]
Early Inspirations
EARLY INSPIRATIONS It was on a school outing to Paris in the days of my youth that I made my first visit to Versailles, and there I [...]
A Work in Progress
A WORK IN PROGRESS At 87, Sam Gilliam is enjoying a career high. In 2018 the artist unveiled a major commission for the National Museum of African [...]
The Belle of the Fall: Rebecca Gardner
THE BELLE OF THE FALL: REBECCA GARDNER Rebecca Gardner, who has been a MILIEU Contributing Editor since our inception, has always been known for her ability to envision—the parties [...]
Setting The Scene
SETTING THE SCENE For centuries, scenic wallpapers have been telling stories in homes. When cherished objects and furnishings are positioned with the designs, interiors take on a [...]
Hearing Voices
HEARING VOICES As a librettist, I thought the idea of setting an opera in the Rothko Chapel seemed preposterous. The much hallowed place in Houston, considered by [...]
Rhapsody in Ink
RHAPSODY IN INK Still a vital force at the age of 90, Jasper Johns has produced a body of work that continues to confound critics and historians, while [...]
Masterworks
MASTERWORKS Taking inspiration from the Delft blue of sixteenth-century ceramic tiles that adorn churches and palaces all over Portugal, MILIEU created hand-painted backdrops and floors to display a [...]
Painting a New Picture
PAINTING A NEW PICTURE Colonialism is complicated. History shows that occupiers and subjects often engaged in a mutual, and uneasy, resentment and admiration. Rarely did it end [...]