The Toledo Museum of Art made art news recently by acquiring American pictorialist photographer F. Holland Day's landmark 19th-century photographic series "The Seven Words." The piece comprises seven tightly framed platinum prints, set in a single wooden frame, showing Day himself posing as Jesus Christ on the cross in his final moments. The Toledo version is one of three known originals - the others are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will go on view in autumn 2027.

What happens when some of the most recognizable names in American art end up in the same gallery? Coinciding with the nation’s 250th anniversary, American Stories from Sargent to O’Keeffe: A Partnership with The Newark Museum of Art brings forty-five masterworks to Greenwich, CT. This sweeping presentation looks across generations, movements, and vastly different philosophies to explore what American art can be. Above: Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971)...