“Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio shares more than the artist’s work, it shares his world… “It’s very much an environmental experience,” exhibition curator René Paul Barilleaux told Forbes.com about the presentation. “It’s a complete immersion into a world that he conceived.” Sights, sounds, and smells converge across six galleries. Yes, smells. The exhibition features bespoke aromas.

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more than 600 figures, violent foreshortenings, and confounding, conflicting viewpoints, the paintings deliver such whirlwind frontal force, such sensuality, sublimity and nobility, that they can seem to have arrived fully formed—not from the hand of an artist but from that of a god.

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) in Richmond, Virginia, will be opening a new exhibit. “Give Me Liberty” will commemorate America’s 250th birthday, which will be celebrated July 4, 2026.

Currently on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, until April 27, “Becoming an American Modernist” illustrates how Lazzell became a master printmaker and one of America’s first female modernists.

TheCollector recently had the pleasure of speaking with curator Adriano Marinazzo about “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” an exciting new exhibition held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. On view from March 6 to May 28, 2025, the exhibition brings together Michelangelo’s rarely seen initial studies and early drawings for the world-renowned frescoes he completed in the Sistine Chapel. As a leading scholar on the oeuvre of Michelangelo, Marinazzo has also used this once-in-a-lifetime show to introduce several discoveries in Michelangelo’s work that have not previously been presented to the public.

Blanche Lazzell ( 1878-1956) was a staunch nonconformist, not only when it came to her art-about which she wrote, “[it] will be my own or nothing” -but also the restrictive social norms surrounding her gender, ability and freedom to live the way she wished. She never married and made many trips to Europe, where exposure to the avant-garde shaped the evolution of her work. 

His first museum exhibition, “Seven Gold Paintings,” came in 1971 at the McNay Art Institute. Tracy won early fame with paintings and sculptures—often described as “Baroque” because of their powerful energy—that read like mashups between the corporeal and the spiritual.

“Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist,” the first major exhibition in nearly two decades devoted to this artist, will soon grace the Bruce Museum. On view will be more than 60 paintings, prints, and other works on paper, most characterized by Lazzell’s bold colors and flattened forms.

Yes, that Fear and Loathing. This week our guest is British artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman, most famous for his collaborations with famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, including the iconic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has a new career retrospective exhibit titled “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing”…

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the Williamsburg, Virginia museum ahead of the Renaissance master’s 550th anniversary. Curator Adriano Marinazzo, an architect and Michelangelo expert, has organized a show that offers an extremely rare chance to see 25 drawings that were used to plan for the celebrated ceiling and another fresco in the Sistine Chapel known as The Last Judgment.

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