Although he first aspired to be a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), founder of Louis C. Tiffany and Company, became the Gilded Age's leading purveyor of decorative arts. The exhibition "Tiff…
Ann Hamilton's latest work, ONEEVERYONE, a series of sixty-five photographic portraits on porcelain-enamel panels, did not begin with a sketch or even an idea. It began with a vote. "My inspiration,"…
The Barnes Foundations' current display of more than 170 vintage photographs by 22 influential photographers, "Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890-1950," is n…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…