About the Fourth Plinth program in London’s Trafalgar Square: Beauty will save the world — and ugliness will ruin it.
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A Tour of the Capitol Rotunda Paintings for the Fourth of July
On this holiday celebrating our beginnings, today’s raging, bored, and bossy mob may need a dose of history paintings.
The Glory of Spain: A Treasure Trove That Tells a Story
Houston’s MFA and NY’s Hispanic Society offer Velázquez honchos, Goya’s hot-tamale Duchess, and Sorolla en la playa.
Plague Art, to Rivet, Horrify, or Heal
Napoléon visits plague victims (and does not social distance), skeletons dance, an archangel intervenes.
Duchamp vs. the Dingbats
If he were around today, he’d be mocking today’s pieties, not joining the chorus. A new documentary about him misses
The Timeless Heresies of Paradise Lost
A recent stage adaptation honors the power of Milton’s famous epic while highlighting its more problematic aspects.
In Montreal, Egyptian Mummies, in 3-D, Have Secrets to Share
One mummy was a plump Roman youth with a sweet tooth, another was a two-year-old depicted as trampling enemies underfoot.
James Prosek: An American Original
As a college junior, he wrote an illustrated history of trout — and he’s been an outside-the-box artist ever since.
New Life in New London’s Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Old Masters, Hudson River paintings, galleries both grand and intimate — the former seaport town is right to be proud
Splendid Arshile Gorky, in Venice
He’s better than Pollack, and the Ca’ Pesaro exhibit of his mystical work makes for a nice break from the