‘Sharing Images’ at the National Gallery
• June 6, 2018

Most museum exhibitions devoted to the art of the Italian and German Renaissance center around new and developing scholarship. The overwhelming majority of important works from this era are well […]

The National Museum of African Art: An Incomparable Treasure
• May 16, 2018

It’s not possible to understand Western art in the 20thcentury without African art. In fact, that is probably an understatement. Without African art, there would be no 20th-century art as […]

Summer Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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RALPH STEADMAN: A RETROSPECTIVE American University Museum at the Katzen June 16 – August 12 The upcoming Ralph Steadman retrospective at the American University Museum will offer a glimpse into […]

The Auction Block: Impressionist and Modern Art Special
• May 2, 2018

BRINGING THE HAMMER DOWN Final selling prices for noteworthy items at recent auctions  

At National Museum of Women in the Arts: ‘Women House’
• May 1, 2018

On view through May 28, “Women House” presents work spanning nearly a century by 36 artists, including Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler and Claude Cahun.

Sally Mann at the National Gallery
• April 18, 2018

Southern culture rests permanently at a crossroads of public opinion, at once fetishized and villainized for its traditions and its temperament. On the surface, we adore its quirks: its languid […]

Women Cartoonists at Library of Congress
• April 4, 2018

In the past century, I can’t think of two subjects more overlooked in art history than the contributions of women and the influence of cartoons. A protracted struggle has long […]

The Auction Block April 4, 2018
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Sotheby’s Timurid Mihrab Panel, Central Asia/Persia, 14th–15thc. Estimate: $110,000 – $165,000 Auction Date: April 25 (London) Part of the Arts of the Islamic Worlds sale at Sotheby’s, these tiles were […]

The Auction Block: Asia Week 2018
• March 15, 2018

Here are several choice lots coming up during Asia Week auctions in New York on March 19 and 22-23.

At the Phillips: ‘Ten Americans: After Paul Klee’
• February 7, 2018

Paul Klee was one of those rare artistic innovators whose influence, like an undercurrent, can be difficult to gauge from the surface but should not be underestimated. Born in Switzerland […]