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Tim Burton at MoMA
January 6, 2024Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
January 5, 2024Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
January 4, 2024So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 3, 2024The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
January 1, 2024The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
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The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
December 28, 2023And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
December 24, 2023The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
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Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
December 23, 2023Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
December 19, 2023Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
December 16, 2023For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...