My parents were very different people from very different backgrounds, but they bonded over at least two things: movies and…
I blame my parents, first, and a great friend of nearly four decades, second, for my collecting addiction. Without a…
Since lately haters insult me a little less than usual, I am about to sign an elitist and classist article….
Venice is an artificial miracle, a metropolis of gold and marble and crumbling brick and peeling stucco improbably set afloat…
Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into…
It started last Oct. 6, when an adjunct instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed the students in…
Did we judge 2020’s statue vandals too harshly? Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr.–Coretta Scott King “Embrace” sculpture with any luck…
In the age of disappearing Snapchat messages, Insta stories, and 280-character tweets, it is reasonable to ask why building lasting…
What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting,…
