We had been sponging on Europe far direction instead of developing our own, and Europe had been handing out nice little packages of spiritual direction to us. But then Europe fell into disorder and ...

America is an unenlightened nation. America is predestination, transcendentalism, superstition, and sin. Walt Whitman famously wrote that “the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their ...

The best American art is often hidden. Sometimes, it conceals itself in pop culture, hiding in plain sight by disguising itself as a commercial product. Think muscle cars, comic books, or the middle ...

What could be a more appropriate—and instructive—companion to the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial selection of today’s adventurous artists, than a reminder of what preoccupied their daring ...

The story of American modernism is being rewritten and the Norton Museum of Art is taking part in that conversation with its concurrent spring exhibitions. "From Man Ray to O’Keeffe: American ...

Excerpt: ‘Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism’, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy.

For most Texans, Charles Butt is a name encountered under fluorescent lights, pushing a grocery cart down the aisles of H-E-B. But step inside the Blanton Museum of Art this spring, and that same name ...