Stories By Alix McKenna
Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
August 15, 2026The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Art
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
August 8, 2026So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
August 6, 2026The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
Art
The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
June 5, 2025Yiull Damaso has achieved a true artistic milestone. He has created what is quite possibly the...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
June 3, 2025How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
After Image
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
May 31, 2025As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
May 28, 2025Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Death
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
May 27, 2025While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
May 27, 2025In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
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