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Native American Art: Blanket Statements
The essentials of Navajo culture are woven into every textile they made, even though most were intended for the Anglo market.
The Extraordinary Ordinary
Finding beauty in the cast-off or the offbeat, eclectic collectors are redefining aesthetic value — on their own terms.
Spanish Colonial Art: The New World’s Old Masters
Spanish colonial art, long dismissed as derivative or politically incorrect, is receiving a major reappraisal in Latin America and drawing new attention in the U.S.
Contemporary Photography: Multiple Exposures
Whether they’re inspired by Internet surveillance images or 17th-century portraits, contemporary artists draw on a wide range of material to stretch photography’s limits of expression.
Duane Michals: The Wizard of Gramercy Park
Duane Michals has always chosen to photograph the things you can’t see, and now he’s using paint to show us things you can’t photograph.
Chicago Style
The Second City has first-class art to see and buy, from museums to galleries to auction houses.
Young Victorian Punks
Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art mounts a sweeping exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—the first U.S. retrospective of its kind.
Helen Frankenthaler: Beyond the Sea
The late Helen Frankenthaler famously “departed” from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career.
Dynamic Ceramics
With changing tastes, growing interest from China’s middle class and ancient objects emerging from the ground, there are some new opportunities in the hugely diverse realm of Chinese earthenware.
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