The University of Pittsburg has digitized its rare full set of John James Audubon's Birds of America and made it fully searchable. Only 120 complete sets of Audubon's classic are known to have survived.

Holland Cotter,"The People's Artist, Herself a Work of Art," NYT, 29 February, and Blake Gopnik,"How Two Women Painted Themselves Out of the Corner," Washington Post, 9 March, review"Frida Kahlo," an exhibit at Philadelphia's Museum of Art. Gopnik also refers to"Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter," an exhibit at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Beaux's earliest art teacher, btw, was her aunt, Catherine Drinker Bowen, the distinguished American biographer and historian.

Bob Thompson,"Things Fall Into Place," Washington Post, 9 March, features Chinua Achebe on the 50th anniversary of publication of his novel, Things Fall Apart.