Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Andrew L. Shea
Monday
Monday
Charles Mingus at 100
He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work
Sunday
Precarious and thrilling
Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history
Thursday
A brush with Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a female star of the Abstract Expressionist boys’ club
Tuesday
Flagging energy
Jasper Johns, an art-world darling for decades, is getting a massive museum retrospective
Wednesday
Old Masters, new look
The Met has cleaned up its act
Wednesday
Night at the museum
Is the Baltimore Museum of Art exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to sell off major modern paintings?
Wednesday
Culture and anarchy
Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur
Monday
Still painting after all these years
While others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting
Thursday
Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom
His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair
Monday
The real McCoy
In memory of McCoy Tyner
Friday
The soft power of Italian jazz
Eat to the beat
Friday
Hank Mobley, the greatest sax player you never heard
Jazz may be an egalitarian, collaborative music, but jazz musicians honor their best with the laurels of hierarchy. Everyone knows the royal monikers of ‘Duke’ Ellington and ‘Count’ Basie, and most people know that Billie Holiday was ‘Lady Day’. But there’s also a whole aristocracy of hip name-drops: ‘The Baron’ (Charles Mingus), ‘Pres’ (Lester Young),
