For those who consider museum-going a secular religion, here’s a meta-experience: “Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe” opens Feb. 13 at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and features 133 objects linked to medieval Europe’s pilgrims – the ones who worshiped saints’ remains the way we worship the “Mona Lisa.” Co-organized…
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‘Treasures of Heaven’ exhibition at Cleveland Museum of Art
Art museums are victims of their own success, although it’s hard to feel sorry for them. To curry favor at the box office, they’ve convinced a generation of visitors that blockbuster exhibitions are defined by how many Egyptian mummies or paintings by Claude Monet or Pablo Picasso they can corral in one place. “Treasures of…
Frolicking in the Middle Ages
With a swing that would be welcome among today’s Orioles, a robed fellow wielding a bat-like stick aims for a ball being tossed by a similarly attired pal. A man and woman sporting long conical hats square off at backgammon. A couple of monks play blind man’s bluff. Boys out on a wintry Flemish meadow…
