This spring New York audiences were indulged with two provocatively revealing exhibitions. Visitors to David Zwirner's Nineteenth Street gallery and the Museum of Modern Art could explore a…
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
The Worcester Art Museum, in Massachusetts, announced today that it has been awarded a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support a series of projects focused on the museum’s…
In 1966, A.i.A. devoted four articles in its September-October issue to the then-new Whitney Museum designed by Marcel Breuer. Architectural historian Timothy M. Rohan discusses the views of our…
Yesterday, Christie’s New York announced the appointment of Elizabeth Beaman to the Head Of Department, American Art.
Beaman, who joined the department in 2011 as Vice President, will replace
Sylvia Yount, chief curator and head of the American art department at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, will become curator in charge of the American art wing of New York's Metropolitan…