France’s Pompidou Center will close in 2025 for five years, while it spends $300 million fixing itself up. The bad news is that it will still be open till then. Its architecture, inside and out, has always…
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns From LC: In this article from The Art Newsletter, Martin Bailey suggests that the nuclear test explosion at the heart of the film Oppenheimer seems prefigured by Van Gogh’s…
Here’s another example of why visual artists should not be allowed to use words. This is an installation on the façade of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. It is by someone named…
Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold in four minutes earlier this month for $195 million, an all-time high for an American work. Despite a foundering stock market, 2022 continues to be a big year for…
After Spike Milligan published “Monty,” the third installment of his memoirs, a reader wrote to praise the book, but added that he was bothered by a reference Milligan made about “cowardice in the face of the…