A Generational Change in Los Angeles
A generational transition has occurred among LA galleries with an influx of post-pandemic start-ups and outposts. more...

American Art: The Stories We Carry
The re-installation of the American art collection at Seattle Art Museum reflects shifts in art history and curatorial perspectives. more...

Asian Underworlds
"Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds" ranges across ten centuries of Asian art and cosmology, and almost as many cultural traditions. more...

“Blacklist” and “Oppenheimer”
The exhibition "Blacklist" and the blockbuster movie "Oppenheimer" bookend the dire effects of McCarthyism 70 years ago. more...

Dishing It Out and Taking It: A Critic’s Comeuppance
In Richard Spears 21 years as an art critic, he has attended a lot of exhibition press previews. April 5th was different, this time he atten more...

Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating. more...

Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power. more...

Not Such Good Work If You Can Get It
Revelations about Tom Sachs' mistreatment of staff cast light on how artists' assistants experience extreme stress and disillusionment. more...

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archeology of Memory
Amalia Mesa-Bains' profusely decorated multimedia installations draw on the Mexican offenda, or home altar tradition. more...

Bruton Sisters
The popularity of the Bruton sisters ran from the 1920s through the War. After that they faded into obscurity. Until now. more...