Wednesday 9 November 2011 "When Applying the Paint Was Spreading the News"
Robin Pogrebin's article in The New York Times, published on October 17, 2011, considers Louis Lang's masterpiece Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. From the Seat of War. The painting will be the centrepiece of the New-York Historical Society's opening exhibition, Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy, which looks at taste and collecting in art as it was defined from the 1830s to the late 1860s.
Making American Taste features other narrative paintings from the Society's collection, including works by Benjamin West, Asher B. Durand, William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson. It will be on show at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - August 19, 2012; travelling to Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 2013–January 12, 2014; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, February 13–May 19, 2014; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, October 11, 2014–January 4, 2015
Making American Taste
1934: A New Deal for Artists moves to Minnesota
Fragonard's Progress of Love wins top prize
Another title receives Honorable Mention
‘Ellis Island of the West’
Eating with Uncle Sam up for award
Romare Bearden show moves to Newark Museum
Silver exhibition opens May 4
Monet in the New York Garden 
Meissen book receives Honorable Mention
Romare Bearden nominated for new award
