
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026

American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 23, 2026But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...

Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
March 1, 2026As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...

The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
November 12, 2025His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...

Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
October 23, 2025This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
September 28, 2025Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
September 11, 2025Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...










