Brian T. Allen

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.

Fraunces Tavern, Bowling Green, plus Charging Bull and the world’s most elegant shoe department.

Two big-ego popes, tapestries, and the hater Michelangelo loom large in the last decade of ‘the prince of artists.

The forever savant, new courtier style, Madonnas, killer portraits, altarpieces, and more.

Visitor fluff, climate kookery, and a new tram motor, all set to cost as much as $800 million, plus news from the ballroom front and LOVE in court.

The 23rd president’s house museum in Indianapolis combines history and peak preservation.

The Meadows Museum in Dallas shows us there’s lots happening in Spanish art between Goya and Picasso.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s soon-to-open new building is an epic story in itself.

It’s well worth a visit, but why are so many foreigners in an American art show?

Crossing borders via Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, the moon, and more.

A deep dive into Wright’s Prairie Style via the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

A gratifying visit to Newfields, the garden and museum campus, for flower sculptures, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and more.

So much happened in his eight years in office, but why is his presidential center so vacuous?

Plus, your critic’s first Butterfly Net Prize for this month’s craziest moment.

It’s not a miracle — the university does things well, it has good donors, and the new Raclin Murphy museum has wonderful art.

Its American art museum interprets a Yankee original, keeping woke hysterics to a minimum.

A visit to Ferry Farm for the archeology of his boyhood home, Kenmore for fabulous plasterwork, and was his mother a battle axe?

The fascinating history of the U.S. Postal Service, but, alas, it’s now illegal to mail your child.

Couture with dash and sparkle delivered in New York’s first Gainsborough show.

Your critic wanted to see this lovely show so much that he put his contempt for the museum’s trustees in abeyance for a day.

A collection on sex through the ages explores its power, delights — oh, and there’s plenty of paraphernalia.

The historic art fair, in its 20th year, is the ultimate teachable moment on the zest and heft of drawing, from the Old Masters to now.

Plus, a great Caravaggio and Bellini as special guests.

Auctions and the Winter Show at the Armory hint at the strength of the market for old American art.

Philly’s Museum of the American Revolution explores pitfalls, perils, triumphs, and flops as the Declaration of Independence went worldwide.

A look at the permanent collection in its brand-new galleries.