Galleries
Galleries · October 12, 2025
Portland Art Museum was still emerging from a major renovation when we visited, but there was already plenty to explore. From Oregon landscapes and Japanese prints to contemporary icons like Kehinde Wiley, Keith Haring, and Tracey Emin, these are the works that lingered long after we walked back out into Portland.
Galleries · August 31, 2025
Most New York subway riders are focused on catching trains, making connections, or figuring out whether the express is running local again. Meanwhile, mosaics, murals, historic tilework, and public art quietly surround them. A photographic tour of some of the stations that made me stop, look up, and risk missing the next train.
Galleries · August 23, 2025
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling Guggenheim rotunda competes constantly with the art inside it—and that’s part of the experience. From Chagall’s dreamlike Paris and Franz Marc’s joyful yellow cow to Rashid Johnson’s sprawling “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” exhibition, this visit became less about chronology than movement, atmosphere, and visual overload.
Galleries · August 16, 2025
MoMA is almost impossible to write anything fresh about, which is annoying because we keep going back. This Gallery entry skips the grand theory and focuses on what caught our attention this time, from Monet and Dalí to soup cans, coffee tins, coded style, and one very persuasive skeleton raisin girl.
Galleries · August 10, 2025
A Fifth Avenue mansion-turned-exhibition-machine, the Jewish Museum uses art to explore Jewish identity across time. From Dutch Golden Age takes on Esther to Ben Shahn’s blunt social commentary, the result isn’t a linear timeline—it’s a conversation that moves between history, politics, and lived experience.
Galleries · July 30, 2025
A visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art at the edge of the High Line, moving through its galleries without a set plan. A selection of works that stood out—from early 20th-century pieces to contemporary exhibitions—set against a building that keeps the city constantly in view.
Galleries · July 29, 2025
We walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a solid attack plan and a high level of confidence, both of which lasted about 20 seconds after walking through the lobby. Here’s a collection of the things we liked best for reasons even we don’t understand.
Galleries · July 18, 2025
Inside the Musée d’Orsay’s soaring former train station, we let marble gods, brocade sleeves, unsettling children, and Art Nouveau furniture derail any plan to “do” the museum properly. These are the sculptures, paintings, and interiors that stopped us—and made us argue about living room design instead of masterpieces.
Galleries · June 24, 2025
A visit to Zaragoza’s IAACC Pablo Serrano begins with a striking building and opens into a restless, generous museum. From Serrano’s evolving sculptures to sharp Goya reinterpretations and thoughtful temporary exhibitions, the institute treats art as something active—unfinished, inquisitive, and very much alive.
Galleries · June 08, 2025
Bilbao’s other museum—the quieter Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa—was mid-renovation, which means half the collection was boxed up or on loan. What remained was a distilled sampler of Basque and European art, from El Greco and Gauguin to Zuloaga and local favorite Daniel Tamayo. Lean and echoey, the visit felt a bit light, but the expansion looks promising enough for a return trip.