I would be scared that this crocodile would come to life and eat me. Or that I would break this $1.9m chair. Not sure which is worse.

My book was published by Hachette Book Group and I read it so many times in editing that I now am exhausted just by looking at it.

My mother got carded a few years ago at a liquor market near our Uni. She only had cash and was asked to leave as she might be underage. She was 63.

Just had an amazing, reuniting work lunch with my friend and fellow Art Reporter Kelly Crow outside DC Clyde's Willow Creek Farm. Amazing company, decor and food, but forgot to take a photo. So here is an artist's rendering.

Eli Broad, a kid who collected stamps & then rose to create two Fortune 500 companies and was known for being an LA culture honcho & founder of ⁦The Broad⁩, has died at age 87. Godspeed, sir, and my condolences to Edye and her family. wsj.com/articles/eli-a…

In addition to being an art journalist and Holocaust historian, I am apparently also a famous surgeon.

A scathing British takedown of America’s artistic scene led to one of America's most celebrated art movements. This month's Reframed columns reexamine the Hudson River School. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #painting artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Julie Hart Beers is one of the "lost" great female artists of the Hudson River School. Rediscover this incredible artist and her painting "Birches by a Woodland Stream." Mary M. Lane Davis Museum at Wellesley College #art #arthistory #landscapepainting artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Is science a form of art? This is the question that photographer Eadweard Muybridge grappled with in 1887, when he set up twenty-four trip wires to photograph a racehorse named Bouquet. Rijksmuseum Mary M. Lane #photography #arthistory #history artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Eagles and George Washington have for centuries been mainstream symbols of the United States, and the nation’s unique contributions to science, culture, and the stalwart pursuit of truth. americanart Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #painting artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

In the early 1800s, a female flag maker in Baltimore was commissioned to create two flags for Fort McHenry. One was lost to time. The other is in the Smithsonian... Smithsonian Mary M. Lane #history #flag #arthistory artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Contrary to the increasingly popular opinion, the Star-Spangled Banner is a sign of progress (not perfection) and diversity in the United States. Historical facts show this, as my "Reframed" column Art & Object explores. artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Contrary to the increasingly popular opinion, the Star-Spangled Banner is a sign of progress (not perfection) and diversity in the United States. Historical facts show this, as my "Reframed" column Art & Object explores. Ben Shapiro artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

In Sloan's rooftop scene, set in the summertime, young female immigrants strive to achieve the American dream while maintaining dignity. Addison Gallery of American Art Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #Immigration artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

Paul Revere's iconic print contains purposeful inaccuracies both relatively innocuous and significantly problematic. Boston Athenaeum Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #history artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

William Hole’s striking fresco on canvas, adhered to a wall in Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery, portrays a historical figure who made religious and secular contributions to history. Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #history artandobject.com/news/reframed-…

After a year examining important but misunderstood works from art history, Mary M. Lane looks back at what we have learned from her Reframed columns. Mary M. Lane #art #arthistory #history artandobject.com/news/looking-b…

Whoopi Goldberg explaining that the Holocaust wasn't about race because these were "two groups of white people" isn't just insipid, it's insidious. It's downplaying the minority status of Jews in order to uphold bullshit intersectional arguments that justify anti-Semitism today.

Wow. Chinese mouthpiece China Daily criticizes US Holocaust Museum for bringing attention to #UyghurGenocide and China propaganda, says "shame on the Holocaust museum," Jews should show "appreciation" to "Chinese people. "

⁦Ben Shapiro⁩ Irmgard Furchner gets 2 years in prison for helping kill over 10k people in a Nazi Camp. Justice travesty. She's not even having to serve it due to her being 97. What about all the people she helped murder who didn't get to that age?⁦ bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…