The Power of Art by Simon Schama
January 29, 2025For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 8, 2025The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
Art Review – Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, Denver Art Museum
December 28, 2024And that little black dress worn by Catherine Deneuve is as much an idea as a...
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
December 23, 2024The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
Landscape and Memory: Wildfires Threaten Colorado’s Built Heritage
December 16, 2024As environmental writer Bill McKibben noted on Twitter, the evacuation of the nation’s center for research...
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
December 9, 2024A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
Art Review: Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, The Getty Center
December 9, 2024Fans of animation will feel at home here – this is an exhibit all about the...
Art Review: Ends of the Earth: Land Art To 1974, MOCA, Los Angeles
December 5, 2024Land artists were critical of the sanitizing effects of situating artwork in a gallery, and Fluxus...
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
December 2, 2024The scene depicted is officially entitled Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, but...
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
November 27, 2024Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....