Once you get past Ledare's obvious willingness to confront taboos, you discover that his real subject is far messier: the mostly unconscious intersubjective forces that determine our relationships…
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art has found a new director in John W. Smith, who since 2006 has been director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. He will assume th…
Sometimes art is most meaningful when you least expect. If you'd told me a month ago that the most engaging encounters I would soon have with art would be connected to institutions of higher learning…
Pat Steir is best known today for her “Waterfalls,” a series of physically commanding paintings that can reach 37 feet in length. Composed of sweeping brushstrokes and impossibly long pours, the i…