You can say it in three words: curiosity, courage, generosity. Or you can say it in one word: Ripley.
DIA seeks financial help from foundations to save its art.
Key players line up to support Franklin School as ‘Kunsthalle’ arts space.
The exhibition is part of a year-long cultural program organized by the Italian government.
From English comedian Catherine Tate to SNL’s Chris Christie sketch, translation, or rather mistranslation, is inherently fraught with potential humor.
Are snowflakes really beautiful? Or is it our natural inclination to find beauty where there is only randomness and disorder?
Drawing by Martín Ramírez, one of the most famous self-taught artists of the 20th century, was found in 2009.
Museums should look at the sad story of Detroit and figure out a way to avoid putting art in peril.
The old Franklin School would be the perfect place for a museum that focuses on bold work by living artists.
Detroit center of debate over importance of art.
ARCHITECTURE | New building at Fort Worth museum both contrasts, complements Kahn classic.
The world’s design critics have noticed that plans for a new stadium look a lot like “lady parts.”
First of two exhibits of photographer’s work at Portrait Gallery includes images of Churchill, O’Keeffe.
Lost in most stories about the business of art, its value, sale and provenance, is any discussion of the emotional aspect of ownership.
Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, the 29-year-old man who nailed his scrotum to the paving stones in Red Square last Sunday, it seems is perfectly sane.
If the public is being sold a fantasy about a second Mona Lisa, there is something appealing about a new version.
Fernand Léger’s paintings, on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, often feel like a pleasant respite.
An exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the extraordinary modern history of Los Angeles.
David Ward, one of the co-curators of the Hide/Seek exhibition of gay portraiture, has been appointed Senior Historian of the museum.
Trove of missing and looted art, hoarded for decades in a Munich apartment, is a collector’s dream.
Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at the Post since 1999, first as Classical Music Critic, then as Culture Critic. In 2011 he combined art and architecture into a beat that is focused on everything visual in the nation’s capital.
» His citation on pulitzer.org