Guy Diehl
Guy Diehl favors a deliberate rendering technique that evokes Old-Master realism. His still lifes do more than pay homage to Zubaran, they resolutely take the measure of what art can do. More...
Laszlo Layton
These photographs of wildlife specimens, with added hand painting and carefully controlled color, draw us to nature's fragile beauty. More...
Chintz, Kitsch and Letdown in the Infinity Room
The wait to spend a minute in Yayoi Kusama's immersive "Infinity Mirrored Room" at the new Broad turned out to be an underwhelming art experience, a theme-park-like build-up that lacks sincerity of intent. More...
Danielle Frankenthal
Danielle Frankenthal paints on both sides of multiple sheets of transparent acrylic resin panels and stacks them to display multiple layers of painting that register depth and cast shadows. More...
Eugenio Merino
Eugenio Merino turns his scathing eye on the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Works here such as "Under Pressure," "The Iron Cage" and "In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash" score aesthetic along with political points. More...
Cornelius Völker
Cornelius Völker explores the traditional genres of still life and portraiture, with a twist, luscious brushwork and lively color. More...
“Looking Forward Looking Back”
Shows like "Looking Forward Looking Back," an exhibition exclusively of women artists, risk replicating old barriers more than providing illuminating exposure. We get a scrappy effort here that hints at historical achievements but stays remote from the larger context. More...
Édouard Vuillard
While Edouard Vuillard contributed to the development of modernist pictorial space, he importantly remained a product of bourgeois culture. More...
POLIN and Treblinka
Polish and Jewish history are linked through achievement and tragedy. Matthew Kangas takes us to two museums in Poland that address both sides of this history, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) and The Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom. More...
“Gyre: The Plastic Ocean”
"Gyre: The Plastic Ocean" is art as a warning. A "gyre" is a vortex, here an ecological disaster located deep in the Pacific Ocean. More...
Dan Bayles
Dan Bayles’ new paintings unsettle our acceptance of Constantino Brumidi's dome mural at the U.S. Capitol building as a symbol of democracy. More...
Ishiuchi Miyako
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was born shortly after WWII, and important currents in her work reflect on war and its aftermath. More...
Raising Cosmic Consciousness
The topic of cosmic consciousness in art takes a front seat in current and recent shows in Houston of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. More...
Anila Quayyum Agha
Anila Quayyum Agha's installation, "Intersections," projects complex shadow patterns from a single light source placed within a suspended black box. The result is a magical, mystical sacred space. More...
The Great (Gallery) Migration
This year has been dynamic for the growth of new art spaces. Bill Lasarow notes that his has been marked by new and established galleries heading for districts not previously known as gallery destinations. More...
“The Book of Scores”
Guest curator Chiara Giovando has the idea of a musical score in mind, the artists here making the connection but obliquely. More...
