NR PLUS Art A Firing Offense at the Museum of Jewish Heritage By Brian T. Allen May 14, 2022 Also: Why is the National Gallery spending money on a show the American public won’t see, and Marilyn’s in the news.
NR PLUS Magazine The Incomparable Florine Stettheimer By Brian T. Allen May 12, 2022 A review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography, by Barbara Bloemink.
NR PLUS Art A Meaty, Tasty Look at Baroque Genoa at Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale By Brian T. Allen May 12, 2022 Expansive and rich, Superbarocco is long overdue.
NR PLUS Art Hollywood Comes to New Hampshire, with Dartmouth’s Art Acquisition By Brian T. Allen May 7, 2022 The school’s Hood Museum buys the definitive collection of golden-age movie-star photographs.
NR PLUS Art A Profile of Dartmouth’s Nearly Perfect Hood Museum By Brian T. Allen May 5, 2022 With an expanded building and great collection, it excels at teaching students and locals alike.
NR PLUS Art The National Gallery’s Afro-Atlantic Histories Is Too Big and Loses Focus, but the Art Is Great By Brian T. Allen April 30, 2022 Curatorial screeds distract from good artists, many from Brazil, unknown to Americans.
NR PLUS Art The National Portrait Gallery: Ways to Make a Good Museum Better By Brian T. Allen April 23, 2022 This unique institution needs to ditch bad portraits, for starters.
NR PLUS Culture The Smithsonian’s Splendid American Art Museum, with a Few Quibbles By Brian T. Allen April 21, 2022 Some of its new acquisitions are booorrring and trivial, but its time-tested stars, in one of D.C.’s most beautiful buildings, still shine.
NR PLUS History A Visit to Ford’s Theatre, Reopened and Riveting By Brian T. Allen April 16, 2022 157 years after Lincoln’s murder, a history museum still stuns and saddens.
NR PLUS Culture The Getty Trust, the World’s Richest Arts Organization, Gets a New Leader By Brian T. Allen April 14, 2022 Katherine Fleming needs to focus on education and art, not politics and climate hysteria.