Museums Need to Be ‘the Openers of Doors’
Embrace the spirit of Emerson and lead us out of lockdown.
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Coronavirus Hits Museums
After weeks of a world quarantine and stresses to the soul, art will heal us. Let’s open the museums as quickly as we’re able.
Aubrey Beardsley at the Tate: ‘Quite Mad and a Little Indecent’
Suffering from TB, he indulged a unique vision.
Baroque Mastery at the Rijksmuseum
The show’s a wonderful travelogue, a history lesson, and an aesthetic banquet, too.
Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things
An exhibit at London’s National Portrait Gallery explores the aesthetic 1920s set and the photographer who chronicled them.
Art for Sale in Maastricht: Quality, Quality, Quality
Armor, saints, kings, and patriots, plus a classy place to keep your powder dry.
Francis Bacon, from Tormented to Mellow, in Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts mounts a splendid show of the well-known but ever-mysterious Irish artist.
Radical Italian Art Goes Over the Top, Dazzlingly, in Houston
A chair crafted by woodworms, a buffet made of car doors, eye-popping color … serious whimsy for an Italy shattered by WWII.
Smithsonian Tosses a Bride, Architects Throw a Fit
Two big design-world news stories of the week.