Museum Review Turing’s Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate The museum at Bletchley Park, the World War II British code-breaking center, sheds light on methods and people, including Alan Turing.
Exhibition Review When Mother Nature Stops Being Maternal “Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters” examines the immense forces wielded by earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Critic's Notebook Obsessive Visions on Display Collectors with all-consuming urges have built some of the most idiosyncratic museums, monuments to their determination to possess certain objects. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Understanding Wasn’t Mutual “Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Critic’s Notebook Great Job on the Railroad. Now Go Back to China. Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of Chinese in America examine cultural identity and history. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Punch Lines, Reverberating in the Ruins An exhibition of photographs at the Yeshiva University Museum depicts the tattered remains of Catskills hotels where many Jews vacationed in the postwar period.
Critic’s Notebook Among the Ancient Stones, Magic as Potent as Ever How do you renovate ancient stone arrangements? At Stonehenge, that meant reconfiguring a highway and building a new visitor center.
Museum Review Revisiting the Nightmares of World War I The remodeled First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London prefer to convey the experience of the conflict rather than explain the forces behind it.
Museum Review Security Secrets, Dated but Real The National Cryptologic Museum, which is the National Security Agency’s public face, opens up about American cryptography — but only that of the past. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review At 75, Still Stepping Out of Line A show at the New-York Historical Society celebrating Ludwig Bemelmans’s classic book “Madeline” is as much a tribute to its schoolgirl heroine as it is to her creator. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review If the State Fair Were X-Rated (or at Least a Strong R) “Funland: Pleasures and Perils of the Erotic Fairground,” at the Museum of Sex, is an immersive experience meant to invert ordinary senses of propriety, privacy and taste. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Museum Review The Harmony of Liberty The new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, does not focus solely on civil rights history but also highlights present-day human rights struggles.
Visceral Reality vs. the Big Picture An exhibition of World War I artifacts at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin spurs reflection on what is gained and lost by distilling a war through personal experience. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
What's On in Washington Artifacts With a Life All Their Own From a calling card left by John Wilkes Booth to a soccer jersey signed by Iraq’s national team, some objects at four different museum exhibitions in Washington bear the weight of history.
Exhibition Review The Joys of Judging a Book by Its Cover “Gatsby to Garp,” an exhibition of first editions, galleys and letters at the Morgan Library & Museum, focuses on a literary period when the modern American bookstore and inventive book jackets were in their prime.
A Memorial to Personal Memory The Sept. 11 museum may be breaking new ground both in its ambition’s scale and the ways it falls short. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Grandes Dames of the Gardens “Groundbreakers,” an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, pays tribute to the women who designed and photographed the great American gardens of the early 20th century.
Exhibition Review King Cotton and His Bloody Surrogates “Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War,” at the New-York Historical Society, makes clear that textiles were at the heart of the conflict.
Critic’s Notebook For Audiences as Varied as an Ark Full of Animals The children’s exhibition “Noah’s Ark,” at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, helps exemplify that center’s mission to record Jewish heritage and serve a diverse audience. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review From Smallest of Clues, Flying Reptiles Reborn “Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of the Dinosaurs,” an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, prompts reflection on the unpredictable nature of evolution.
Museum Review Turing’s Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate The museum at Bletchley Park, the World War II British code-breaking center, sheds light on methods and people, including Alan Turing.
Exhibition Review When Mother Nature Stops Being Maternal “Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters” examines the immense forces wielded by earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Critic's Notebook Obsessive Visions on Display Collectors with all-consuming urges have built some of the most idiosyncratic museums, monuments to their determination to possess certain objects. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Understanding Wasn’t Mutual “Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Critic’s Notebook Great Job on the Railroad. Now Go Back to China. Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of Chinese in America examine cultural identity and history. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Punch Lines, Reverberating in the Ruins An exhibition of photographs at the Yeshiva University Museum depicts the tattered remains of Catskills hotels where many Jews vacationed in the postwar period.
Critic’s Notebook Among the Ancient Stones, Magic as Potent as Ever How do you renovate ancient stone arrangements? At Stonehenge, that meant reconfiguring a highway and building a new visitor center.
Museum Review Revisiting the Nightmares of World War I The remodeled First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London prefer to convey the experience of the conflict rather than explain the forces behind it.
Museum Review Security Secrets, Dated but Real The National Cryptologic Museum, which is the National Security Agency’s public face, opens up about American cryptography — but only that of the past. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review At 75, Still Stepping Out of Line A show at the New-York Historical Society celebrating Ludwig Bemelmans’s classic book “Madeline” is as much a tribute to its schoolgirl heroine as it is to her creator. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review If the State Fair Were X-Rated (or at Least a Strong R) “Funland: Pleasures and Perils of the Erotic Fairground,” at the Museum of Sex, is an immersive experience meant to invert ordinary senses of propriety, privacy and taste. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Museum Review The Harmony of Liberty The new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, does not focus solely on civil rights history but also highlights present-day human rights struggles.
Visceral Reality vs. the Big Picture An exhibition of World War I artifacts at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin spurs reflection on what is gained and lost by distilling a war through personal experience. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
What's On in Washington Artifacts With a Life All Their Own From a calling card left by John Wilkes Booth to a soccer jersey signed by Iraq’s national team, some objects at four different museum exhibitions in Washington bear the weight of history.
Exhibition Review The Joys of Judging a Book by Its Cover “Gatsby to Garp,” an exhibition of first editions, galleys and letters at the Morgan Library & Museum, focuses on a literary period when the modern American bookstore and inventive book jackets were in their prime.
A Memorial to Personal Memory The Sept. 11 museum may be breaking new ground both in its ambition’s scale and the ways it falls short. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review Grandes Dames of the Gardens “Groundbreakers,” an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, pays tribute to the women who designed and photographed the great American gardens of the early 20th century.
Exhibition Review King Cotton and His Bloody Surrogates “Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War,” at the New-York Historical Society, makes clear that textiles were at the heart of the conflict.
Critic’s Notebook For Audiences as Varied as an Ark Full of Animals The children’s exhibition “Noah’s Ark,” at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, helps exemplify that center’s mission to record Jewish heritage and serve a diverse audience. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Exhibition Review From Smallest of Clues, Flying Reptiles Reborn “Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of the Dinosaurs,” an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, prompts reflection on the unpredictable nature of evolution.
