Angelica Hankins
@angelicahankins.bsky.social
Art critic in Washington, D.C. Writing in Artforum, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian magazine. AngelicaHankins.com
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“Cassatt relished the details: the graceful cut of a skirt, the supple lines of a hand. Picturing a woman bathing a baby, Cassatt lingers on her lemon-yellow dress, dotted with black, tendril-like branches.”
My review of “Mary Cassatt at Work”
www.neh.gov/article/inde...
My review of “Mary Cassatt at Work”
www.neh.gov/article/inde...
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Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
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I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches."
My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
September 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches."
My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.
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'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.
August 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.
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Emily Brontë, 1846
#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë
"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."
🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral
#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë
"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."
🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral
August 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Emily Brontë, 1846
#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë
"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."
🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral
#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë
"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."
🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral
"Brady had an artist’s eye. He knew what light, what turn of the elbow or shift of weight, could transform a person into a vision."
My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
July 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Brady had an artist’s eye. He knew what light, what turn of the elbow or shift of weight, could transform a person into a vision."
My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Catherine of Aragon w/ her pet monkey. The most fun she ever had! Painted in 1525 by Lucas Horenbout, whose day is today.
July 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Catherine of Aragon w/ her pet monkey. The most fun she ever had! Painted in 1525 by Lucas Horenbout, whose day is today.
Browne homed in on people as they are: "at a standstill," unknown to themselves. To her, the role of the artist was to tease out the grotesque, what’s hidden under the surface. To see should not "invoke fear so much as interest, action."
My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
July 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Browne homed in on people as they are: "at a standstill," unknown to themselves. To her, the role of the artist was to tease out the grotesque, what’s hidden under the surface. To see should not "invoke fear so much as interest, action."
My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it
June 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it
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“Hemphill found that transient home in his writing.”
A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙
A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙
"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
June 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Hemphill found that transient home in his writing.”
A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙
A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙
"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
June 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history
Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”
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Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”
buff.ly/bS9glHf
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history
Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”
buff.ly/bS9glHf
Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”
buff.ly/bS9glHf
"To be that attentive to nature, to let the world wash over you, seems a particular kind of gift. There is a tenderness to this work, an intimacy. Stay a while, they seem to urge. Go on looking."
My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...
My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...
May 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"To be that attentive to nature, to let the world wash over you, seems a particular kind of gift. There is a tenderness to this work, an intimacy. Stay a while, they seem to urge. Go on looking."
My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...
My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...
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“To stand before her tapestries is to follow one thread, then another, never losing the rhythm.”
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷
"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown."
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“To stand before her tapestries is to follow one thread, then another, never losing the rhythm.”
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷
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“What she loved was this, here, now…that somehow, in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things…she survived.”
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
May 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“What she loved was this, here, now…that somehow, in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things…she survived.”
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown."
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
May 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown."
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...
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"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."
--Simone Weil
--Simone Weil
May 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."
--Simone Weil
--Simone Weil
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'The South Ledges, Appledore.' Childe Hassam spent many summers on Appledore Island, one of the remote islands that make up the Isles of Shoals located off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire; he stayed with his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This work was painted in 1913.
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
'The South Ledges, Appledore.' Childe Hassam spent many summers on Appledore Island, one of the remote islands that make up the Isles of Shoals located off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire; he stayed with his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This work was painted in 1913.
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“This is not the world as it is, but as it could be.”
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜
"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be."
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
March 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“This is not the world as it is, but as it could be.”
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜
Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜
"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be."
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be."
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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“To sculpt with abandon, to be free…”
Enjoyed @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at Buffalo’s AKG.❤️
Enjoyed @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at Buffalo’s AKG.❤️
"Throughout her life, men told Marisol they’d prefer a woman 'who thinks about them all the time.' She had other ideas. . . . 'If you learn to live with yourself, you have achieved something.'"
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“To sculpt with abandon, to be free…”
Enjoyed @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at Buffalo’s AKG.❤️
Enjoyed @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at Buffalo’s AKG.❤️
"Throughout her life, men told Marisol they’d prefer a woman 'who thinks about them all the time.' She had other ideas. . . . 'If you learn to live with yourself, you have achieved something.'"
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
January 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"Throughout her life, men told Marisol they’d prefer a woman 'who thinks about them all the time.' She had other ideas. . . . 'If you learn to live with yourself, you have achieved something.'"
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
My review of "Marisol: A Retrospective" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum www.neh.gov/article/many...
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On Friday I finally got around to visiting a church that had been on my ‘must see’ list for ages now…St. Peter and St. Paul in Pickering, North Yorkshire, with its amazing mid-15th century wall paintings…and I was absolutely not disappointed!
January 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On Friday I finally got around to visiting a church that had been on my ‘must see’ list for ages now…St. Peter and St. Paul in Pickering, North Yorkshire, with its amazing mid-15th century wall paintings…and I was absolutely not disappointed!