ART FIRSTS

$21.99 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The story of art is not always the story of art-historical “isms” and complex academic debate. The real history is often the story of some very simple firsts—the first time an artist painted themselves, the first time someone painted a smile, the first actual place to be depicted, the first feminist artwork, the first anti-war work.Art evolves and revolutionizes itself through these simple—but ground-breaking—creative leaps. Art Firsts brings together 30 of these pioneering firsts to piece together an…