Richard Lacayo

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A Museum Embraces the Triumph and Struggle of Black America

Any history museum is a storytelling machine. But the newest one in Washington, D.C., starts telling its story before you even enter. The very silhouette of the National Museum of African American History and Culture...

By Richard Lacayo

Art

KERRY JAMES MARSHALLIn works invested with a kind of madcap virtuosity, Marshall, 60, brings African-American lives vividly into the discourses of art history. One of the many things that make his paintings so smart is...

By Richard Lacayo

New Survey Brings Women Into the Action of Abstract Expressionism

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, when Abstract Expressionism first erupted, life wasn’t easy for those who adopted it as their practice. Red-baiting Congress members denounced it as a communist plot. Wary museums refused...

By Richard Lacayo

I Left My Art In San Francisco

A stunning new expansion by SFMOMA has transformed the City by the Bay into a premier destination for art

By Richard Lacayo

The Old-Master Met Fills its Modern Satellite With Works in Progress

The Met Breuer opens in the former Whitney building

By Richard Lacayo

A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying

It goes without saying that at the age of 79, Frank Stella is one of the greatest living American painters. He’s also one of art’s great apostates, a man who abandoned a faith he helped...

By Richard Lacayo

Review: Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

A show of Dutch masters shines light on the ordinary

By Richard Lacayo

Los Angeles Becomes 'Broad' City

A billionaire art lover has turned an L.A. street into an outgrowth of his passion for collecting, building and meddling

By Richard Lacayo

Tennis Balls and Trash Give Pablo Picasso Another Dimension

The master’s sculptures arrive at MoMA

By Richard Lacayo

The Best of Fall Art

From Dutch treats and far-flung Pop to Picasso in 3-D

By Richard Lacayo

Review: Gustave Caillebotte at the National Gallery

A new view of a wide-angle Impressionist

By Richard Lacayo

Welcome to the Whitney’s New Home

A famous architect takes the museum downtown

By Richard Lacayo

An Appreciation: The Endlessly Curious Richard Corliss

"He loved movies, but he loved them knowledgeably, judiciously, scrupulously"

By Richard Lacayo

MoMA’s Talking Pictures

Images give voice to the Great Migration

By Richard Lacayo

Kehinde Wiley’s Royal Treatment

The artist does a street-chic update of the Old Masters

By Richard Lacayo

Review: Richard Ford’s Frank Talk

A writer revisits his favorite character in Let Me Be Frank With You

By Richard Lacayo

Keith Haring’s Cartoons of Calamity

The artist’s social conscience comes into focus in a new exhibit

By Richard Lacayo

Matisse’s Great Paper Chase

At MoMA, a dazzling display of the ‘cut-outs’

By Richard Lacayo

The Parisian Sex Toy Christmas Tree Is the Latest Great Art Scandal

The American artist Paul McCarthy gets some Frenchmen aroused

By Richard Lacayo

Goya: The Alfred Hitchcock of Painting

No other artist put himself into his own dark pictures so much

By Richard Lacayo
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