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Sharon Lorenzo shares her enthusiasm for the The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida Founded in 2000, the Baker Museum is a 30,000 square foot regional museum annexed to a large performance complex in the Pelican Bay area of Naples, Florida. In…
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Sixty pairs of mannequins – 1870 to the present. Met Museum Catalog The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is showing a magnificent installation of fashions from its 33,000 items spanning 700 years of costume as part of…
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Visit the amazing art collection of John and Dominique Menil. In 1930 John and Dominique de Menil met at a ball held in Versailles outside of Paris. They had both attended University nearby and soon fell in love, married, and…
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Six seasons of looking at art through artists’ eyes. Begun in 2015, The Artists Project at the Metropolitan Museum has invited 120 artists over six years to choose individual works of art or entire galleries – and share their reflections…
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Sharon Lorenzo writes about Nantucket Island’s cultural organizations. Entrance to Nantucket Harbor In this time of confinement, many people find great joy in appreciating the gifts of artists and collectors who generously decide to share their treasures with the public….
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Provenance, testing and connoisseurship. As a professor of art, law and cultural heritage policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, I teach a seminar each year on how legal precepts have intertwined with the art market in our preceding…
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Alice Walton opens the new addition to The Momentary in a spectacular event that Sharon Lorenzo attended. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2011 My husband and I had the great privilege of being invited as the guests of…
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Sharon Lorenzo visits selected works from the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York that are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Two hundred works are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…
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Sharon Lorenzo explores the history of silhouettes. Silhouette of Sarah Margaret Fuller by Henry Williams, 1830. Concord Museum. Before the invention of photography emerged in the United States about 1839, only the wealthy patrician could afford the luxury of…
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