It would do America a real service if we spent less time on politics and more on the things that rouse the spirit and feed ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal: that ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

“It also has reliably first-rate displays of contemporary art,” Smee wrote, calling the CMA “a cultural powerhouse with healthy attendance figures.” Smee and fellow critic Philip Kennicott ...

Not every art institution could, or should, be everything to everyone. Tucked away in big cities, leafy suburbs and college towns, some of America’s most beloved museums offer intimate and ...