Fixing Elite Universities Means Firing Bad Trustees, Starting with Harvard’s
Plus, federal arts agencies may be at death’s door, but they’re still making grants...
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Brian T. Allen
18:24
Orozco’s Epic Murals, the Art of Flowers, and Cookbooks Through the Ages, All at Dartmouth
It’s got a great art museum, but don’t miss its main library’s Mexican masterpiece...
Brian T. Allen
16:23
Sargent’s Madame X Is More Than Ready for Her Close-Up
The Met’s Sargent and Paris show lets us know that the artist’s unique flair stands the test of time...
Brian T. Allen
14:26
A Day at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Superbly restored rooms, a show on the art of vodou, and energy and élan at a New England treasure...
Brian T. Allen
03:19
What to Do with the Rot on Our Country’s Campuses?
The slap of firm government is the only way to right admissions, hiring, antisemitism, and staff bloat...
Brian T. Allen
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Art Deco Knockouts, Velázquez, Hals, and More at the World’s Grandest Art Fair
In Maastricht in the Netherlands, the exhibition hall bursts with art treasures and connoisseurs, checkbooks in hand...
Brian T. Allen
05:23
A French Coup for the Art Institute of Chicago
The Horvitz collection of Old Master French drawings and paintings, the best in America, heads to Chicago as a gift...
Brian T. Allen
21:24
Toward Joy Goes Off the Rails at the Brooklyn Museum
Angela Davis, the Nap Ministry, drag queen Miss Cracker, and a surreal, new take on American art...
