Edition No. 54
Arts and Culture
New York Times article offers a thought-provoking review on how the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art spotlights female artists from Italy in earlier centuries.
Community and Family
At Home with the DIA online programming features activities and art-making projects for the whole family!
American Democracy
“Inflation caused by supply-chain disruptions will probably fall within a few months, but it is not at all clear if Americans who dropped out of the labor force will return.”
The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds
An article posted in the New York Times titled The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds highlights a current exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut featuring a collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 explains how female artists played a vibrant yet overlooked role in Italy in the 16th through 18th centuries.
The exhibition, By Her Hand, is dedicated to Italian female artists at the Wadsworth and explores how important female artists succeeded in the male-dominated art world of the time. The Wadsworth’s Self-Portrait as a Lute Player – is compared with a related painting from the National Gallery, London, is noted as a rare opportunity to see the paintings side by side. Gentileschi’s pioneering depictions of strong women, such as her Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes is featured from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
While this exhibition is not a local visit, this NYT article offers a thought provoking take on how the Wadsworth Atheneum spotlights the female artists, and asks: Who got left out of the canon?
Image credit: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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“The Year of Inflation Infamy,” New York Times,
Sunday, December 19, 2021
With inflation a concern in some quarters and growing calls for the Fed to raise rates and tighten the money supply, we return to inflation again this week and focus on a lengthy New York Times article by Noble Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
Though a “card-carrying member of Team Transitory,” Krugman indicated he would rethink his membership in that club if he saw evidence that, “expectations of future inflation are starting to drive prices – that is, if there were widespread stories of producers raising prices even though costs and demand for their products aren’t exceptionally high…” So far at least, Krugman has not seen such evidence and so argues against quicker rate hikes by the Federal Reserve at this time.
“My view is that we should be hesitant about killing the boom prematurely. But, like everyone who’s taking this debate seriously, I’m hanging on the data and wonder everyday whether I’m wrong.”
This an important but long article that filled an entire page in the print edition of the Sunday Times.
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