Ai Weiwei Breaks into Alcatraz
A rocky island full of crumbling buildings is hardly a typical contemporary art venue. Yet "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz," a site-specific exhibition of seven new works, could not have found a better…
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Getting the Lead Out: Mel Chin
At a 1993 conference at New York's Dia Center for the Arts, artist Mel Chin took to the stage and pointed a rifle at the audience. The act deeply impressed Herb Tam, curator at New York's Museum of…
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Deep in the Art of Texas
Everything sprawls in Dallas, and the Nasher Sculpture Center's 10th-anniversary exhibition, "Nasher XChange," is even livelier and more capacious than a rodeo. The show is scattered over the length…
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Miami Museum Looks South to Go Global
With a new Herzog and de Meuron-designed building and a new name, the Pérez Art Museum Miami hopes to make that tropical city a center of the art world. Formerly known as the Miami Art Museum, the in…
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Going Against the Grain: Interview with Sebastian Errazuriz
Some of those included in "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design" blur the artist-designer distinction. A prime example is Sebastian Errazuriz, who expands the concept of furni…
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King Herod, Master Builder, at Israel Museum
Since the 2007 discovery of Herod's tomb in the city he built and modestly named Herodium, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has worked with archeologists and conservators to sift through the dust of…
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Veronese in His Element
There couldn't be a more felicitous venue in North America for the exhibition. The circus entrepreneur John Ringling (1866-1936) and his wife Mabel loved Venice and built a Venetian Gothic mansion…
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New Art Push at Dartmouth with Hood’s Aboriginal Show
"Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art" (through March 10, 2013) showcases for the first time a massive gift to the museum representing, accordi…
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Contemporary Canadian Art: More than Maple Syrup
Words by hockey player Wayne Gretzky, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been," could have inspired curator Denise Markonish in assembling the forward-looking exhibition "Oh…
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Wish You Were There
When—as a Halloween prank—the painter Charles Clough installed a bright orange masonite arrow on the façade of the venerable Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, just below the neoclassical caryati…
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