Brian T. Allen

The new Theodore Roosevelt Library tells a gripping story, but will woke kooks hijack it?

Nonprofit trusteeship provides lines that can’t be crossed, and they apply to all arts organizations.

Art showing flags with hearts in the middle, kids riding bikes, and rainbow eagles insult concepts of citizenship, love of country, and what makes America great.

His family home in Nyack, N.Y., a house museum and study center, delivers new ways to see his moody, cryptic art.

The fun and frolicking ’50s — was it all a fraud? And more on the Gardner’s excellent show on the book of Esther.

Art and culture news has some notable comings and goings.

His museum in Cody spotlights his larger-than-life bio, his Wild West show, and why Annie Oakley wished she’d killed the Kaiser when she had the chance.

The Biennale’s anchor In Minor Keys exhibition mass-produces woe, and lots of bad art follows.

Venice’s Cannaregio neighborhood has gem after gem.

The State Department delivers a dud for America 250.

One’s a magnificent wreck, the other’s more convoluted than ever.

A look at its superb museum of Western art from Catlin and Bierstadt to today.

In this month’s art news: perky auctions, ancient gold, corpse flowers, and Vermont summer cheer.

The famed village’s museums practice good diversity, and here’s how.

At its American History Museum, anger’s in, real history’s out, and heads need to roll.

Stephen tended to business and all things Cooperstown.

A look at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s exhibitions and hidden treasures in the Vault.

The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles combines art, technology, history, and the lure of the road.

Majestic art in the Badlands, a compelling vision, what a subject, what an artist.

Virtue-signaling, mediocrity, and woke ideology lay the Smithsonian low and make a thorough head-rolling essential.

The Torlonia Collection of ancient Roman sculpture ends its triumphant North American tour at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Instead of a crazy oppression theme, try Spain’s little-known essential support for the Patriots’ cause during the Revolution.

At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hooker’s Party, judges in a cave, and an old oak tree point to 1776.

PAFA’s shines, thanks in part to a dazzling renovation, the PMA’s not so much.

Putting aside the gods it glorifies, as architecture, it’s not bad.

The flower of Japanese metalwork shines in an impressive collaboration.

Rule No. 1 in cutting arts funding is ‘don’t look stupid.

At the Art Institute of Chicago, self-love reigns, as well as living large by going small.

Pollock and Rothko go through the roof, plus ghostly spaces, sublime seas, and the power of yarn.

Trinity Church, Hamilton’s grave, and Washington’s fight for Manhattan. Plus, the Morris-Jumel house gets a look.