Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 1, 2025Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
July 27, 2025Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
July 23, 2025A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
July 22, 2025“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 29, 2025There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...




