Vermeer is everywhere. Not only in the hallowed halls of museums, but also in the gentle light that streams through the window just so, or in the crisp pages of a love letter set down gently at one’s writing desk. Historian Ruth Bernard Yeazell seems to agree in Vermeer’s Afterlives, her new title tracing the Dutch painter’s enduring presence across the arts, from film to verse. Lauren Moya Ford brings us into its exquisitely illustrated pages.

In another must-read today, a glitch at Finnegan Shannon’s Pioneer Works exhibition yields insights on institutions and accessibility. “The installation’s deviation from what I expected, like disability itself, offered me a new perspective on the world,” Bryan Martin writes, “a reminder of our collective responsibility to those who live in it.”

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