Robert Motherwell

"1968: Art and Politics in Chicago" at the DePaul University Art Museum is the first significant look back at several exhibitions from the years surrounding the '68 Democratic National Convention and a hard act to follow for any other show of political...

The Twin Cities are far from identical twins. St. Paul, the Minnesota capital and host to the Republican National Convention this week, historically looked to the East Coast for architectural inspiration and retains a human-feeling scale. Minneapolis...

Every time my husband, Kevin, and I visit the Napa Valley, we leave with a newfound appreciation for the local arts: the art of wine making, the art of wine country cuisine, the art of wine-and-food pairing. With so many temptations, we've never put...

CRITIC'S PICKS Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Through Sept. 16 at the Whitney Museum of Art, Manhattan). The art of psychedelia was about eye-popping colors, free-form ooze, obsessive fantasies, altered consciousness and the broadening of...

Picture this: Watery light filtering through stained-glass windows. Shimmering cornfields depicted in Colonial drawings. Ships sailing up the James River. Listen carefully, and you might hear these images in musical compositions. All served as...

When Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....

Daily, artists labor to capture Cape Cod's quality of light, expanse of sky and sweeping seascapes. The resulting paintings, watercolors, photographs, pottery and sculptures have shaped the Cape's sense of itself and the world's sense of the Cape. Surely...

New England's best-known, most popular oceanfront resort area is Cape Cod, an expansive sandbar that stretches out like an arm with a clenched fist into the Atlantic. Cape Cod is multi-faceted, holding attractions for visitors with varying interests....

Midway through the captivating survey of abstract paintings by the late Emerson Woelffer (1914-2003) that on Thursday inaugurates the new REDCAT Gallery in Walt Disney Concert Hall, a modest-size canvas stands out for its eloquent simplicity. Titled...

Think of the East End as the ultimate American melting pot -- not of ethnic groups yearning to breathe free, but of architecture unrestricted by modesty or budget, in a setting redolent of age and history. California may have the contemporary verve,...