
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...

American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 23, 2026But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...

Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 8, 2026It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...

Art Review: Graphic Design: Now in Production, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
March 7, 2026Lovers of advertising, of the internet and interactivity, of reading and the media, sit back and...

Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
March 1, 2026As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...

Art Review: Becoming Van Gogh, Denver Art Museum
February 25, 2026But it was at that moment that he discovered Japanese prints, rapidly assimilating all he could...

Art Review: Picasso Black and White
February 18, 2026The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the perfect venue for hosting great chronological exhibitions...

Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...

Art Review: Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, Denver Art Museum
February 12, 2026Her canvases are vast, and painted in bold swathes of cartoonishly bright colors. The subject matter...














