
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
January 17, 2026The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...

Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 12, 2026And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...

Art Review: Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, Denver Art Museum
January 6, 2026So many amateur painters have painted the swelling volumes of the church of San Francisco de...
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...

Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...

John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
November 14, 2025Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 12, 2025Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...

Art Review: Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum
November 9, 2025The pair make their way through a crowded New York park. At the woman’s neck, a...











