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Apr 30, 2026
Benjamin Harrison, anyone? He was our 23rd president, well known to few, a mere name to most, probably unknown to those younger than, say, 40 if they went to a union-run school...
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Apr 23, 2026
I always enjoy visiting the Meadows Museum, the art museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Its founder, Algur Meadows, wanted what he called “a Prado on the...
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Apr 16, 2026
Last week, I visited, for the 20th or more time, the always much-anticipated Whitney Biennial — wild and wacky, ponderous and beguiling, puzzling, depressing, sometimes...
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Apr 9, 2026
In 1833, when the outpost called Chicago was incorporated, only 350 pioneers called the mosquito-plagued bog home. Soon, canals, railroads, factories, banks, pigs, and cattle...
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Apr 2, 2026
Over the years I’ve reviewed FDR’s house and presidential center, Coolidge’s museum and site, Andrew Jackson’s house, the Hermitage, LBJ’s Library,...
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Mar 26, 2026
Greetings from South Bend and the campus of the University of Notre Dame, home of the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. It’s a jewel in Notre Dame’s crown and a...
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Mar 19, 2026
When I was a curator and a museum director, I never went to the art fair held by the European Fine Art Foundation, or TEFAF, an annual extravaganza held in Maastricht in the...
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Mar 12, 2026
Greetings from the Swamp! I always enjoy visiting. Excise the ruthless bastards, the useless bastards, the liars, reptiles, and Grooms of the Stool — every day is a race...
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Mar 9, 2026
Sometimes opportunity knocks in booms and bangs. I told a good friend a week ago that I was heading to North Adams, Mass., a short drive from my home, to see the Massachusetts...
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Feb 27, 2026
This week I’m not venturing far, so I’ll write about the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, or MASS MoCA, a little east of my home in ye olde Vermont and the...
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Feb 19, 2026
Today is Valentine’s Day, so what to write, what to write? There’s Fragonard’s Progress of Love series at the Frick, commissioned by Madame du Barry,...
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Feb 13, 2026
One thing that enquiring minds don’t ask anymore is whether the Hispanic Society is worth a visit. Those in the know understand that this unique, fantastic museum in...
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Feb 6, 2026
Lots of juicy art news in the new year, so let’s peek into the glass hive. I’ve written off and on about the drive to unionize museum staffs. Two weeks ago, unions...
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Jan 29, 2026
Enough of America’s 250th, for a while at least. I’m writing today about my visit to the Morgan Library, much loved and always worth visiting, since its Renoir...
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Jan 22, 2026
Greetings from rainy, snowy, icy, and flu-ish Vermont. Yes, though normally a cheetah dashing from place to place, I was felled, walloped, really, by the flu ten days ago on the...
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Jan 2, 2026
I’m always chipper around Christmas and New Year’s, times of gift giving, snow, revelation, reflection, and renewal. Revelation isn’t just about prophets...
Apr 30, 2026Benjamin Harrison, anyone? He was our 23rd president, well known to few, a mere name to most, probably unknown to those younger than, say, 40 if they went to a union-run school...
Apr 23, 2026I always enjoy visiting the Meadows Museum, the art museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Its founder, Algur Meadows, wanted what he called “a Prado on the...
Apr 9, 2026In 1833, when the outpost called Chicago was incorporated, only 350 pioneers called the mosquito-plagued bog home. Soon, canals, railroads, factories, banks, pigs, and cattle...
Apr 2, 2026Over the years I’ve reviewed FDR’s house and presidential center, Coolidge’s museum and site, Andrew Jackson’s house, the Hermitage, LBJ’s Library,...
Mar 26, 2026Greetings from South Bend and the campus of the University of Notre Dame, home of the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. It’s a jewel in Notre Dame’s crown and a...
Mar 9, 2026Sometimes opportunity knocks in booms and bangs. I told a good friend a week ago that I was heading to North Adams, Mass., a short drive from my home, to see the Massachusetts...
Feb 19, 2026Today is Valentine’s Day, so what to write, what to write? There’s Fragonard’s Progress of Love series at the Frick, commissioned by Madame du Barry,...
Feb 13, 2026One thing that enquiring minds don’t ask anymore is whether the Hispanic Society is worth a visit. Those in the know understand that this unique, fantastic museum in...
Jan 22, 2026Greetings from rainy, snowy, icy, and flu-ish Vermont. Yes, though normally a cheetah dashing from place to place, I was felled, walloped, really, by the flu ten days ago on the...
Jan 2, 2026I’m always chipper around Christmas and New Year’s, times of gift giving, snow, revelation, reflection, and renewal. Revelation isn’t just about prophets...