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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
July 28, 2021Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
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Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
July 22, 2021De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
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Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 9, 2021Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
July 8, 2021Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
October 17, 2020The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
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Art Review: Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum
October 12, 2020Marajó is a vast island lying at the mouth of the Amazon, much of which is...
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Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 5, 2020Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
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Art Review: Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 4, 2020The pieces presented in this forty-year retrospective are bright and smooth, often dauntingly large, and composed...
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Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
September 30, 2020The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
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Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
September 30, 2020While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...