Visual Arts
It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.
Read MoreIf you are in New York this week there is plenty of art to see. Just a short walk from the Metropolitan Museum is a show that you will probably never see again. You can visit it for free. It closes this weekend.
Read MoreMuse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.
Read MoreAfrica’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Read MoreMaking the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.
Read MoreWhile it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.
Read MoreRaida Adon rejects political categories because they fail to capture the utter strangeness of lived experience.
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Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy
Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.
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