
Exhibition Reviews: What a Good One Actually Tells You Before You Buy a Ticket
Description first, verdict second, and a thesis a reader can check against the walls themselves.

Description first, verdict second, and a thesis a reader can check against the walls themselves.

The unspoken rules of the commercial gallery are fewer, and softer, than most visitors fear.

Murals are funded chiefly through percent-for-art rules and nonprofit programs, with Philadelphia's 4,000-mural operation supplying the documented costs.

The Arts Council of Park City & Summit County turns 40 this week. The record shows a genuine track record — and a permanent space it still does not have.

A performance art review weighs time, space, body, presence and audience relation for a work that exists only while it runs, and the published record often outlasts the art.

Artist house museums run from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, at about 25,000 visitors a month, to Monet's Giverny at 530,000 a year, while most house museums draw under 5,000.

A nonprofit platform built during wartime shows how curators can move an entire national art scene online when galleries, fairs and travel fail.

Plein air painting is the act of painting outdoors in front of the subject, a French-born method that the Barbizon School turned into a movement and the Impressionists made famous.

The oldest continuous arts community in America built a gallery scene out of fishing money, dune shacks and a three-mile street.

A members' studio with Rockwell in its past, 18 active members in its present, and a key that opens the door at any hour.