Colorful Quilts

A view of a spectacular exhibition of quilts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They number over sixty, and are from the Pilgrim/Roy collection, assembled over five decades by two private collectors. The earliest are from before 1880, and yet all of them uncannily echo some of the most important currents in 20th American art.

The other striking exhibition was much smaller, on the theme of Caravaggio conoisseurship: four paintings from Europe--two generally accepted to be by him, and two still disputed. And as usual there were temporary exhibitions of photographs, and prints, with many minor gems. Every visit yields much that is new.