Stories By Alix McKenna
Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
April 21, 2025The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Art & Design
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, 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
April 14, 2025So 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
April 12, 2025The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
Art
The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
February 19, 2024Yiull Damaso has achieved a true artistic milestone. He has created what is quite possibly the...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
February 18, 2024How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
February 14, 2024As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
February 11, 2024Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
After Image
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
February 11, 2024While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
February 10, 2024In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
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