Art World 10 Beginner’s Tips for How to See—and Understand—the Rich Complexities of Byzantine Textiles We got some tips from Elizabeth Dospel Williams, a curator at Dumbarton Oaks. By Menachem Wecker, Feb 12, 2020
On View Alfred Jarry’s ‘King Ubu’ Inspired Everyone From the Dadaists to the Beatles—and His Fascist Buffoon Is Now More Relevant Than Ever Without the 19th-century French firebrand, we may never have had Surrealism, Dada, or $120,000 bananas. By Menachem Wecker, Jan 27, 2020
Art & Exhibitions Was John Singer Sargent a Virtuoso Draughtsman? A New York Exhibition Makes the Case—But Fails to Convince The Morgan Library & Museum's latest exhibition argues that the medium is an overlooked strength for the artist. We aren't so sure. By Menachem Wecker, Oct 23, 2019
Art World In Salt Lake City, a New Museum Director Is Attempting to Bridge the Gulf Between Contemporary Art and Mormonism Laura Hurtado, a Mormon from California, took the reigns as director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this year. By Menachem Wecker, Oct 3, 2019
Art World ‘Fine Art Is Good Medicine’: How Hospitals Around the World Are Experimenting With the Healing Power of Art Clinics are increasingly making art a serious part of patient care. By Menachem Wecker, Jul 29, 2019
Art World False Attributions Have Beleaguered Tintoretto’s Reputation. Three New Museum Shows Hope to Change That Several works at the three Tintoretto shows at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, feature corrected attributions. By Menachem Wecker, Mar 21, 2019
Art World The Norton Museum Is Adjacent to the Third-Richest City in America. Can a Major Expansion Make It More Than a Playground for the Wealthy? After a $110 million capital campaign, the museum opens its doors and hopes to draw in a new audience. By Menachem Wecker, Feb 14, 2019
Politics ‘We’re All in Freefall’: Museum Workers Scramble for Cash Amid the Longest US Government Shutdown in History Employees of federal museums are looking for part-time work, anxiously checking their bank balances, and fretting about what's to come. By Menachem Wecker, Jan 18, 2019
People How Barbara and Aaron Levine Became Two of America’s Most Committed Collectors of Conceptual Art The Washington, D.C.-based couple, who just donated a trove of works by Marcel Duchamp to the Hirshhorn, trace their evolution as collectors. By Menachem Wecker, Dec 14, 2018
Art World ‘I’m an Experiment’: Why the Israel Museum Hired Ido Bruno, a Tech-Savvy Designer With No Institutional Experience, to Be Its New Director He hopes to court digital donations from Israel's high-tech Silicon Wadi. By Menachem Wecker, Aug 27, 2018
Politics Collector Leonard Lauder on How Vintage Postcards Can Help Us Understand Propaganda in the Present As an exhibition of his postcard collection opens at MFA Boston, the storied collector explains what draws him to these diminutive works. By Menachem Wecker, Jul 31, 2018
On View Can a University Art Museum Break Out of the Ivory Tower? A New Institute of Contemporary Art Proposes an Ambitious Vision in Virginia The $41 million museum opens to the public with a show that touches on nearly every hot-button topic in American society. By Menachem Wecker, Apr 17, 2018
Art World Beyond the Golden Toilet: How Does Art End Up in the White House, and What Does It Tell Us About Our Leaders? White House art loans have been in the pipeline for decades. By Menachem Wecker, Feb 5, 2018
Art World 9 Works the Met Should Sell Right Now to Avoid Raising Ticket Prices—Forever Two writers engage in an outlandish thought experiment. By Menachem Wecker & Margaret Carrigan, Jan 9, 2018
On View Praying for Success: In the Wake of Scandal, Can the Museum of the Bible Find Mass Appeal? After settling with the Department of Justice over illicit artifacts, the man behind the Museum of the Bible hopes for redemption. By Menachem Wecker, Nov 17, 2017
