Marsden Hartley

David Pagel reviews Monique Prieto "Time Enough" painting exhibition at ACME...

Steve Roden has an uncanny way with making paintings that seem accidental yet inevitable, inscrutable yet utterly coherent. There's a place for everything and everything is happily in its place, fussed over and as carefully assembled as a precise...

In 1989, the private Corcoran Gallery of Art, battered by threats from Congress and worried about future federal grants, canceled an exhibition by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that included male nudity and homosexual scenes. The banning made the...

'Lari Pittman' by Robert Storr, Wayne Koestenbaum, Helen Molesworth and Lisa Phillips, new from Skira Rizzoli, examines one of today's most significant painters....

With good reason, the nation has been focused for several months on horrific stories of anti-gay bullying in American schools. The torment of kids by other kids, sometimes leading to the tragedy of suicide, prompted Congress to hold a briefing......

On Monday, I wrote a column saying that the New York-based Catholic League, which describes itself as the nation's largest Catholic civil-rights organization, was incorrect to characterize a video in a Washington, D.C., exhibition at the National Portrait...

The New York-based Catholic League, a self-described civil rights organization that led the fight to censor an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery late last month, changed tactics this week. Originally objecting to a video that league...

The Museum of Contemporary Art just got a very expensive lesson, both in money and prestige, on the difference between being an art museum and a commercial gallery. Simply put: At a museum, planning counts. Last week MOCA raised eyebrows,......

A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo warehouse might be characterized as a gigantic thumbnail survey. Gigantic because it covers three generations of artists and features room-size installations, one of which includes an...

Since the state was founded in 1850, California has produced almost no major visual artists. I know this -- or at least I'm told this -- by perusing the website for the California Hall of Fame. A celebrity venture started......

The Catholic League dropped a line the other day to complain -- again -- about something I wrote in connection with the Smithsonian Institution's hasty and ill-informed decision to censor an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. As with the......

Arguably, watercolor was the most important medium sustained by American painters struggling with the new demands and untried possibilities of Modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Marsden...