Richard Lacayo

Exterior of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A Museum Embraces the Triumph and Struggle of Black America

Any history museum is a storytelling machine. But the newest one in Washing...

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...

Art

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL In works invested with a kind of madcap virtuosity, Ma...

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL In 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...

New Survey Brings Women Into the Action of Abstract Expressionism

In the late 1940s and early '50s, when Abstract Expressionism first erupted...

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...

The Snøhetta addition gives Richard Serra’s Sequence, 2006, a room to itself

I Left My Art In San Francisco

A stunning new expansion by SFMOMA has transformed the City by the Bay into...

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

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

The Met Breuer opens in the former Whitney building

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 gr...

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...

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

A show of Dutch masters shines light on the ordinary