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...
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
April 21, 2025In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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...
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 13, 2025The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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...
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
April 8, 2025And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
April 4, 2025The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...




