This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. is a watershed in 20th-century ...

In the 1970s, women were not represented at all in the art world. The Philadelphia art show 'Focus' tried changing that. Miss Liberty (1980), a seminal work by Robert Colescott (1925-2009), achieved ...