Jun 24, 2026
Sometimes being caught by an artwork, and by the story behind it, is like walking into a complex room, perhaps an overgrown conservatory, with underbrush and overstory, half-hidden doors, and many corridors. And sometimes while you’re peering about, absorbed, you...
May 8, 2026
A portrait gallery of the past is a powerful place. We are free to look with impunity, to stare without reprimand, to study, to judge. Period photographs may more accurately represent form and feature, but they are robbed of life by the technology that required...
Apr 24, 2026
Ideas can have such long legs. Many long years ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I read an article in the then-Minneapolis Star Tribune about the then-head of what was then-called the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It was, even then, a vast magnificent...
