Lauren A Kaplan Art Tours

Lauren A Kaplan Art Tours We now lead group classes on Zoom, and small, private, in-person tours based around special exhibiti

We lead private, interactive tours that highlight New York's most exciting art and architecture.

Here are some ravishing details from the once-in-a-lifetime Raphael show . Crazily enough, this is the first large scale...
04/23/2026

Here are some ravishing details from the once-in-a-lifetime Raphael show . Crazily enough, this is the first large scale Raphael exhibition ever held in the United States, and it makes the argument—persuasively—that his drawings are just as beautiful as his paintings. It’s illuminating to see his style rapidly evolve as he moved from Urbino to Florence and then Rome. Raphael was only 37 when he died, but he packed a LOT into his relatively brief career.

Some gorgeous faces (and other details) from the ’s sumptuous Raphael show.
04/02/2026

Some gorgeous faces (and other details) from the ’s sumptuous Raphael show.

Just back from a quick trip to London, where I walked everywhere, voraciously consumed art, and talked endlessly with cl...
02/04/2026

Just back from a quick trip to London, where I walked everywhere, voraciously consumed art, and talked endlessly with close friends who I don’t see often. What a gift! Pictured: details from “Turner/Constable” at the Tate Britain (highly recommend!!), “Radical Harmony” at the National Gallery, highlights from the Courtauld’s excellent permanent collection, a plaster cast of Trajan’s column at the Victoria & Albert, and the vast Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern. As an added bonus, it was sunny and 50–an unexpected treat coming from the tundra.

I haven’t posted since summer, and there are many gorgeous and important shows to catch up on. At , Ruth Asawa has taken...
11/16/2025

I haven’t posted since summer, and there are many gorgeous and important shows to catch up on. At , Ruth Asawa has taken over the entire 6th floor—the first time a woman has been given so much space. The retrospective is amazing. It demonstrates Asawa’s numerous talents: Though she was famously adept at weaving her hanging wire sculptures, she was also an audacious watercolorist and inventive printmaker (sometimes using potatoes or her children’s feet as her stamps). She created outdoor fountains throughout San Francisco, and brought art education to the city’s public schools in the 1960s-90s. Her legacy should not be understated, and the show is a must-see.

Ciao from Basque Country! Visiting the Guggenheim Bilbao with my family was pretty high on my bucket list, and yesterday...
08/20/2025

Ciao from Basque Country! Visiting the Guggenheim Bilbao with my family was pretty high on my bucket list, and yesterday, we did it :) It is hands down one of the best museums I’ve visited since having children—there was so much for them to touch, run through, and delight in. This morning at breakfast, they asked if we could go back again. Proud moment for an art historian mom :)

Kids’ first Jesús Rafael Soto
02/25/2025

Kids’ first Jesús Rafael Soto

Joan Jonas (born in 1936) has been bending genres since the 1960s, and at eighty-seven, she is still going. Jonas began ...
04/18/2024

Joan Jonas (born in 1936) has been bending genres since the 1960s, and at eighty-seven, she is still going. Jonas began studying art history, then she earned an MFA in sculpture, and after that, she just started experimenting. She has worked with performance and dance, video and installation, mythical storytelling, and more recently, environmental art.  Across all mediums, her abiding interest is the concept of space: “I have a general relation to space, and it’s always the first thing I think of. I look at a space, and I put things in it. I move in the space, and I develop it,” she says. By “developing space,” Jonas creates immersive experiences that layer her mediums in an almost alchemical way. The end result is a magical “total work of art.” Indeed, to enter the mind of Joan Jonas, you must leave the rest of the world behind. It’s a lovely way to spend an hour or two

Such powerful images of maternal love and pain in the new Kathë Kollwitz show at
04/18/2024

Such powerful images of maternal love and pain in the new Kathë Kollwitz show at

There are some incredible surprises in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” For one, I never knew one o...
04/02/2024

There are some incredible surprises in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” For one, I never knew one of the best portrait painters of the movement was a German emigré named Winold Reiss (the first two portraits here of Langston Hughes and Alain Locke are by him). The sheer diversity of styles and color palettes is astounding, and much of this work has not been seen by a large public in decades. It’s a sheer joy to see all of these works together to tell an story that has long been neglected in American art history!

Karon Davis, “Beauty Must Suffer” at . Such a stunning and powerful show!!
11/17/2023

Karon Davis, “Beauty Must Suffer” at . Such a stunning and powerful show!!

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