Art

An Artist Who Is Not a Capitalist Minimalist

Nahum Tevet's premise is straightforward: What do you need to temporarily preserve and mount a drawing on the wall?

Art

Scar Tissue

One of the things that I admire about Brenda Goodman is her willingness to push a painting into a territory all its own. She isn’t interested in stylistic consistency or any of the other common denominators that can be used to brand one’s work.

Art

In Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents

Over 170 caricatures of Richard Nixon offer an instructive precedent for artists struggling to overcome political and creative blocks in one leap.

Art

Nazis, New York, and Max Beckmann

What New York gave Beckmann was not superficial subject matter, but inspiration in the form of energy.

Books

Sound of Silence: Michael Palmer’s 'The Laughter of the Sphinx'

Michael Palmer’s trust in the generative power that emerges out of silence for poetry runs counter to a deep strain of pessimism throughout The Laughter of the Sphinx.

Art

Beyond Gorgeous: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections

For viewers accustomed to looking at paintings on canvas and panel, manuscripts are a different beast.

Art

The Fateful Attraction of Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch

Sometimes an exhibition, propelled by its clarity of purpose and emotional force, will lead you to a point that feels genuinely cathartic. And sometimes an exhibition will hit that mark and then shift into overdrive.

Opinion

"Hands to Work, Hearts to God": A Post-Election Craft Manifesto

In the wisdom of a small, furniture-obsessed religious sect founded in the 18th century, we may find a way to start moving forward.

Art

A 19th-Century Photographer's Journey Through Jerusalem's Layered History

In 1854, Auguste Salzmann traveled to Jerusalem to search for the biblical history visible in the city's architecture.

Art

An Homage to a Syrian Cosmonaut Turned Refugee

Take a ride with Halil Altındere through his Martian fantasy.

Film

A Filmmaker’s Impromptu Conversations on the Streets of Tunis

Ismaïl Bahri's film began with a simple premise: he would walk around Tunis with a white sheet of paper taped over his camera lens and record the changes of light.

Announcement

See a Rare Masterpiece by Vermeer Now at the Chrysler Museum of Art

Vermeer's painting, A Lady Writing (ca. 1665), will visit Norfolk from its home at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. until Dec. 18.