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Curatorial Chemistry Proves Phenomenal as National Gallery Teams With Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum To Showcase ‘Little Beasts’
‘Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World’ National Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 18 - November 2, 2025 May 30, 2025 For “Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World,” the curators at the National Gallery of Art team up with... Read more -
Many Are the Happy Marriages Between Art and Space at Maryland’s Lavish Glenstone Museum
Glenstone Museum, 12100 Glen Road Potomac, MD 20854 March 31, 2025 There’s a famous story from Pliny the Elder about Cleopatra and Mark Antony at a banquet. As Antony revels in... Read more
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Shadowing and Gleaming: The paintings of Diane Szczepaniak
Essay accompanying "Diane Szczepaniak: Meditations on Color and Light," gallery neptune & brown, 1530 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 September 7, 2024 Diane Szczepaniak’s paintings were created through a slow process of accumulation, rather as sedimentary rocks take form. Layer upon layer... Read more -
Early Optimism Yields to Undiluted Draughts of Anguish in National Gallery’s Exploration of German Expressionism’s Legacy
‘The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy’ The National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington D.C., February 11 - May 27, 2024 February 14, 2024 Among the emaciated figures, somber portraits, and crude experiments in primitivism, many of the characters in the National Gallery’s new... Read more
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Traveling Light: Paintings and works on paper by Ying Li
Catalogue essay accompanying "Ying Li, Traveling Light," Alice Gauvin Gallery January 9, 2024 There’s something primal about Ying Li’s paintings. They are the result of strenuous physical activity – the gestural application of... Read more -
‘British Vision’ at the Met Traces the Origins of the Picturesque Movement in Art — and a Nation in Flux
‘British Vision, 1700–1900: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints’ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY, December 7, 2023 – March 5, 2024 December 18, 2023 While you wait in the virtual queue for “Manet/Degas,” it’s worth a stop by “British Vision: 1700-1900,” a new rotation... Read more
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Seemingly Neither Organic Nor Man-Made, Mark Rothko’s Paintings on Paper Resonate as a Kind of Communion
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024 November 18, 2023 In “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” the National Gallery has assembled more than 100 works by one of America’s greatest... Read more -
An Uncharted Sea of Pathos, Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photos at the National Gallery Inspire Empathy, Not Pity
‘Dorothea Lange: Seeing People’ National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. November 5, 2023 – March 31, 2024 November 3, 2023 Ars gratia artis is all very well, but how about art for the sake of the Farm Security Administration? In... Read more
