Next Friday, two dozen miniatures will go on view in "Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America," at the New-York Historical Society. New-York Historical Society
In a room that serves as an epilogue to the society's exhibition, curators have tried to underscore the contrast between the familiar and the revolutionary by juxtaposing refined Gilded Age portraits that represented the epitome of taste at the time with the riotous colors and geometric patterns that many Americans encountered for the first time on 26th Street.
Unlike his predecessors in the role this season (Angel Corella was phenomenal in his speed as a pouting child), Mr. Carreno showed the weakling inside the rebel from the start in a coming-of-age portrait.
A love story for the ages, as well as an undeniably powerful coming-of-age portrait of queer youth and self-discovery.
The tensions of being gay in straight society are insinuated in works like Grant Wood's 1930 "Arnold Comes of Age," a portrait of a pensive young man against a sparse landscape where two male nudes frolic in the distance.
"The queen shows her age as portrait is updated on coins," the Guardian wrote on March 2 when the new coins were revealed.
In his middle age his portraits grew increasingly sad, revealing sometimes a sense of foreboding (e.g., Nicolaes Hasselaer, c. 1630 33).
But given the casual cruelty of the internet age, the portraits could be endlessly disseminated across social media, decontextualised even further and no doubt mocked.
She made one of the great cinematic coming-of-age dramas, "Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the Nineteen-Sixties in Brussels," one of the great documentary self-portraits, "Là-Bas," and, in 2011, an ecstatic, hallucinatory yet trenchantly political adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel "Almayer's Folly".
Coming up on the fourth anniversary of Brittanee Drexel's disappearance, the CUE Center for Missing Persons has released an age-progressed portrait showing what she might look like now.
British money will look a bit different in the coming months: Coins will bear an updated, age-appropriate portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
