Good morning

Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938)
San Materno Magnolia 1937

Marie-Francois Firmin-Girard (1838-1921)
Landscape with Woman by Stream (A quiet moment)

Bewitched park

Misty city

Telemaco Signorini (1835 - 1901)
Novembre 1870

Charles Walter Simpson (1885–1971)
Wheeling Gulls, Glittering Water c.1944

Theo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926)
Lady in White (Portrait of Madame Helene Keller) 1907

Gotthardt Kuehl (1850-1915)
Lovers in a Café

Christina Harris painting

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Stephen Kurkjian, former investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, and author of the book Master Thieves, about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990. The museum still hopes to get the artwork back and set a deadline on New Year's Eve for a $10 million reward on leads for the 13 missing paintings, that include works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Degas.

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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has worked to make diversity a priority. In recent years, the museum has seen an increase in the percentage of nonwhite visitors.

American museums — their boards, their staffs, the people who visit them — are far more white than the American population as a whole. It's a problem that can affect museums' bottom lines, but it also seems to be in direct contradiction with many of these institutions' missions to spread knowledge and wonder far and wide.

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is emerging as an exception. The general arts museum, which has been around for more than 75 years, has seen the proportion of nonwhite visitors triple to 45 percent in recent years. That's close to the percentage of people of color in the Atlanta area.

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