Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 14, 2025Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
Art Review: Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
August 12, 2025The pieces presented in this forty-year retrospective are bright and smooth, often dauntingly large, and composed...
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
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...




