Museum

Installation view of Sammy Seung-min Lee: Taking Root, 2022. Courtesy of Denver Botanic Gardens.
Sammy Seung-min Lee Takes Root

Occasionally, the adage “There’s nothing new under the sun” is wrong. 

Figure 4. Mosaic of Phoenix, apse of St Peter’s Basilica, 1205-1209/12
Rome's Missing Medieval Past

To the casual observer, Rome is not a …

Installation view, Nick Cave: Forothermore, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 18, 2022–April 10, 2023.
Nick Cave's Forothermore

If your tastes in art run toward the intricately detailed, you’ll find a lot to like in the Guggenheim’s retrospective of …

Theaster Gates, Black Madonna, 2017. Bronze and tar, 58 x 26 x 21 in. 
Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

While summarizing a career as varied and complex as …

Meret Oppenheim. Object (Objet). 1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon. Cup 4 3/8″ (10.9 cm) in diameter; saucer 9 3/8″ (23.7 cm) in diameter; spoon 8″ (20.2 cm) long, overall height 2 7/8″ (7.3 cm).
Inside Meret Oppenheim’s Whimsical and Witty MoMA Exhibition
It’s a recent development in art history to include women in numbers that, if not entirely commensurate with their place in society, are certainly far greater than previously.
Edgar Degas, Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877
Pastel: Impressionism's Lesser Known Medium
Most people think of oil paintings when they think of Impressionism, but almost half of the works in the eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886 were prints and drawings,…
Alex Katz, Blue Umbrella 2, 1972.
Alex Katz Makes Painting Look Easy at the Guggenheim
At 95 years old, Alex Katz certainly makes painting look easy. The 140 or so pieces comprising this Guggenheim survey of Katz’s nearly eight-decade career fill the museum’s rotunda effortlessly.
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm).
Edward Hopper's Life and Work in New York City

New York City has often served as the canvas on which American dreams are painted…

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) Evening dress (detail), from the In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem, 1692, Ready-to-wear collection, fall/winter 2007 Velvet, glass beads, and satin
The Salem Witch Trials Revisited at New-York Historical Society

Three hundred years after the Salem Witch Trials, we are still…

Visitors snap a selfie in front of new commissioned artwork and you did not even know enough to be sorry, 2022, by North Carolina artist Elizabeth Alexander
North Carolina Museum of Art Collection Reimagined

The North Carolina Museum of Art began its “collection of art for the people” …

Wolfgang Tillmans, Lutz & Alex sitting in the trees (1992)
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

Eight years in the making, this sprawling show of some 350…

Andrew Wyeth, John Olson's Funeral, 1945.
Andrew Wyeth’s Drawings of His Own Funeral
Two decades before he was interred beneath a stark tombstone, the artist Andrew Wyeth imagined his own funeral. In about fifty drawings from the early 90s known as the “Funeral Group,” he sketched…
Installation view of New York: 1962-1964 at the Jewish Museum, NY. July 22, 2022-January 8, 2023.
“New York: 1962-1964” Captures More than a Time and Place
“New York: 1962-1964” is a celebration of the institution hosting it. The Jewish Museum has been a venerable fixture in New York’s cultural firmament for what seems like forever, but six decades ago…
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of . . . Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste . . ., 1754. Printed book, engraved plates. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 2 inches (45 x 31 x 5 cm).
Drawing Center's “The Clamor of Ornament” Uncovers our Shared Humanity
The curators set a welcome stage for the visitor to the Center. Greeting them at the entrance is Martin Sharp’s Blowing in the Mind/Mister Tambourine Man (1968). Sharp is known as the mastermind…
Edo peoples, Single-figure plaque, mid 16th to 17th Century. Cast copper alloy. Dallas Museum of Art.
London-based Museum to Fully Repatriate Benin Bronzes
The Benin Bronzes of Nigeria, their provenance, and the possibility of restitution have been making headlines of late. Currently scattered across the world, this collection of a thousand plus statues…