‘Bugatti’ at Easton’s Academy Art Museum  
• February 12, 2025

As I drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toward Easton, Maryland, I took stock of the cars around me — egg-shaped forms in olive and jewel tones, wide-eyed and listless, […]

Sargent, Whistler & Venetian Glass at SAAM  
• February 9, 2022

 John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler, two fiercely independent late 19th-century American expatriate painters who spent most of their lives in Europe and dabbled in Impressionism without ever capitulating […]

Winter Arts Preview
• December 9, 2021

National Building Museum   The Wall/El Muro: What Is A Border Wall?   Through November 2022    This exhibition examines the U.S./Mexico border wall from the perspective of architecture and design. By focusing on the built environment, […]

VISUAL ARTS
• May 17, 2021

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ‘SEEING DIFFERENTLY: THE PHILLIPS COLLECTS FOR A NEW CENTURY’ The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, opened its doors 100 years ago this year. Its […]

The Phillips Collection: 100 Years as a Home for Art
• March 13, 2021

The Phillips Collection’s centennial anniversary exhibition should be serious news. Not just “Arts & Culture” news, but a mainstream feature story. America’s first museum of modern art, which houses an […]

Coming in 2021: Works by Women Photographers
• December 11, 2020

“Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood” is due to open at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in January, and “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the National Gallery of Art in February.

Beautiful Things at the Phillips Collection
• November 12, 2020

There is only so much you can see through a screen. Going to a museum right now and engaging with the depth and dimensionality of real-life art is a vital escape into beauty.

Visual Arts Preview: Social Distancing Edition
• September 17, 2020

This will be a limited and bittersweet season for the arts, but after six months of pure bitterness, this writer will happily take what he can get. The fall arts […]

Museums: Still Closed, for the Most Part, But Not at Risk
• August 13, 2020

NPR recently broadcast a story with the alarming headline: “One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds.”

Black Lives Matter in the Arts
• June 16, 2020

At this moment, art in America isn’t transcending anything. It is mired in the same oppressive systems that methodically obstruct and destroy African American lives.