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...
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...




