Richard Lacayo

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 September 22, 2016

Art

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...

By Richard Lacayo September 12, 2016

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 June 23, 2016

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 May 19, 2016

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

The Met Breuer opens in the former Whitney building

By Richard Lacayo March 17, 2016

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 October 29, 2015

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 October 15, 2015

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 October 1, 2015

Tennis Balls and Trash Give Pablo Picasso Another Dimension

The master’s sculptures arrive at MoMA

By Richard Lacayo September 17, 2015

The Best of Fall Art

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

By Richard Lacayo August 27, 2015

Review: Gustave Caillebotte at the National Gallery

A new view of a wide-angle Impressionist

By Richard Lacayo July 16, 2015

Welcome to the Whitney’s New Home

A famous architect takes the museum downtown

By Richard Lacayo May 7, 2015

An Appreciation: The Endlessly Curious Richard Corliss

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

By Richard Lacayo April 24, 2015

MoMA’s Talking Pictures

Images give voice to the Great Migration

By Richard Lacayo April 9, 2015

Kehinde Wiley’s Royal Treatment

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

By Richard Lacayo February 26, 2015

Review: Richard Ford’s Frank Talk

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

By Richard Lacayo November 13, 2014

Keith Haring’s Cartoons of Calamity

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

By Richard Lacayo November 13, 2014

Matisse’s Great Paper Chase

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

By Richard Lacayo October 23, 2014

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

The American artist Paul McCarthy gets some Frenchmen aroused

By Richard Lacayo October 20, 2014

Goya: The Alfred Hitchcock of Painting

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

By Richard Lacayo October 16, 2014

Henri Matisse Cuts Loose

In old age, French master made some of his most vibrant work, the cut-paper collages coming to Manhattan

By Richard Lacayo August 28, 2014

Jeff Koons' Really Big Show

The artist is closing in on 60 and opening the biggest exhibit of his life

By Richard Lacayo June 26, 2014

Filling the Pantheon With Selfies

French photographer JR takes his street art to one of the world’s most historic monuments

By Richard Lacayo June 12, 2014

Remains of the Day

At the 9/11 museum, history is preserved in memories and debris

By Richard Lacayo May 15, 2014

Southern Art's Harlem Renaissance

Fear, whimsy and sex link images of the old, weird South

By Richard Lacayo April 17, 2014

5 Best Works at the Whitney Biennial

Among a series of disappointments, a few gems shine through

By Richard Lacayo March 20, 2014

The Making of the One World Trade Center Panorama

Bruce Springsteen got it right when he called his magnificent album of post-9/11 songs The Rising. The title track acknowledges the heartbreaking strangeness of the empty sky above lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell....

By Richard Lacayo March 6, 2014

The Guggenheim Goes Back to the Futurists

The Italian arts movement makes for an indispensable new show

By Richard Lacayo February 27, 2014

Picasso Pal's New Vision

George Braque un-peels reputation as Cubism's second banana

By Richard Lacayo February 13, 2014

Going Up ... and Up: When Height Is All That Matters

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Adrian D. Smith, a well-known architect in the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, was in a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. The New York City developer...

By Richard Lacayo December 20, 2004