Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 1, 2025Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks
July 31, 2025Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of...
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
July 27, 2025Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
July 23, 2025A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
July 22, 2025“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...




