Brian T. Allen

The art is fantastic, and it’s a tribute to Michael and Nelson Rockefeller.

It’s the time when the White House is the People’s House and history is most palpable, thanks to Mrs. Kennedy. But, alas, the tours are now canceled to build the ballroom.

His exemplary presidential museum in Austin explores the times that still haunt us.

Starting with a palatial home, French avant-garde art, and one woman’s vision, it’s become a unique cultural treasure.

A nice place, but someone should explain what ‘extraction’ means to the wealth of the nation and people’s paychecks.

It rambles, detours, and disserves the good art in the show, but there are so many wonders elsewhere in the museum.

Plus, in the news, London’s National Gallery gets an addition, a classic wallpaper artist wins a prize, and ups and downs at the Independent 20th Century Art Fair.

A salute to David Lubin, an American art buccaneer now retiring from Wake Forest University.

Good and bad news in the White House’s push for more balance and less bile.

Fabulous building, good art, and an idiotic hit job on American treasures over slavery, equality, and Columbus

Plus, federal arts agencies may be at death’s door, but they’re still making grants.

And a visit to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

Willa Cather’s novel about faith, discovery, and calling, traced in this pretty city’s sights.

A renegade, utopian, artist extraordinaire still makes us think and smile.

Bunker Hill, a sundered church, and Patriot graves convey the Revolution’s tumult, plus lessons in Puritan design.

Catering to fringe groups, its exhibitions are holding it back.

I cannot tell a lie. George, Martha, and their stately home are star attractions.

Two stellar new exhibitions, plus a ‘mind-boggling deal’ to salvage what’s failed at Crimson.

Black Earth Rising seasons oppression with the climate folly — the museum can do better.

Memories of an art-world star and cherished friend.

The NEH gets a second wind, the Kennedy Center will get millions for building rehab, a museum director gets the axe, and will Bette Davis get a statue?

The du Pont estate in Delaware might be old-time but the art is timeless.

It’s got a great art museum, but don’t miss its main library’s Mexican masterpiece.

The Met’s Sargent and Paris show lets us know that the artist’s unique flair stands the test of time.

The museum is small — in a Holocaust landmark building — direct, and packs a punch.

Superbly restored rooms, a show on the art of vodou, and energy and élan at a New England treasure.

The slap of firm government is the only way to right admissions, hiring, antisemitism, and staff bloat.

Yale’s Center for British Art shows 75 works by the British visionary for his big birthday bash.

After its 2014 plan to expand was scuttled, its leadership rethought and made something better.

The redo is total, graceful, and chic . . .