The Philadelphia Art Museum is organizing a 2026 exhibition centered on a famous artwork that is closely associated with it but is actually not part of its collection: the statue to Rocky Balboa, the fictional boxer created by Sylvester Stallone, that stands at the...

Did you know that an exhibition opens every 17 seconds in New York City? Just kidding, but it certainly does seem that way here, as though art shows were sprouting from the pavement or falling from the sky. They are, in reality, the result of the labor and love of...

It was 1978, and I was sitting in the first row of a medium-size classroom at the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD was a good school. We had a robust lineup of speakers. Mostly they were painters, sometimes there was a sculptor, always they were men listing their...