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For the past year, a veritable feast of French Impressionist paintings has been touring the United States. Organized in partnership with the American Federation of the Arts and originating at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, the exhibition called “Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism” was designed to coincide with a worldwide celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition in Paris. Since the exhibition’s debut last fall at the Chrysler, it has gone on to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio. Late last month the exhibit opened at the Seattle Art Museum, where it will be on view until January 18, 2026.

In Essayism, Brian Dillon dispels the notion that the essay is an excuse for not being able to commit to a long-term project. Some essays, for example, On Being Blue by William H. Gass or Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, are over a hundred pages, hardly the output of an uncommitted, dilettante writer.