Arts
‘Bugatti’ at Easton’s Academy Art Museum
‘Revival’ at National Museum of Women in the Arts
• August 9, 2017
Recently, most contemporary art passing through this city has focused on our external experiences, the way we negotiate, perceive or fit into our environments. Yayoi Kusama’s monumentally popular “Infinity Rooms” […]
Donald Sultan’s “Disaster Paintings” at SAAM
• July 26, 2017
In the 1980s, the painter Donald Sultan began a series of industrial landscapes that he called “Disaster Paintings,” transforming images from newspapers into large-scale, heavily wrought monuments to industrial devastation […]
Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips, Hirshhorn
• July 12, 2017
The Hirshhorn just opened a major exhibition of rock-star Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the museum’s third in five years. It is a highly personal landscape of political dissent, a sly, […]
Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips, Hirshhorn
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The Hirshhorn just opened a major exhibition of rock-star Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the museum’s third in five years. It is a highly personal landscape of political dissent, a sly, […]
Bazille at the National Gallery
• June 21, 2017
About two years ago, I flew to South Africa to visit my mother’s family (she moved to America shortly before I was born). The last time I had visited […]
‘Portals’ — and the Paris Accord
• June 7, 2017
Our president plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement negotiated in 2015 by representatives of 195 countries. The accord signifies a commitment […]
The Auction Block
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Christie’s The Rockefeller Emerald Raymond C. Yard (1885–1964) Estimate: $4 million – $6 million Auction Date: May 15 This superb Columbian 18.04-carat emerald, part of the Christie’s sale Magnificent Jewels […]
‘Portals’ — and the Paris Accord
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Our president plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement negotiated in 2015 by representatives of 195 countries. The accord signifies a commitment to […]
Summer Visual Arts Preview
• May 24, 2017
At some point soon, we will all need respite from the summer heat — some dimly lit, air-conditioned place away from the blistering July sun, where we can pursue […]
Summer VISUAL arts preview
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At some point soon, we will all need respite from the summer heat — some dimly lit, air-conditioned place away from the blistering July sun, where we can pursue our […]
