Over a lifetime living in Alabama, Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist inspired by the African American tradition of yard displays, built an incredible body of sculptures out of found objects. Eventually, the art-world establishment caught on, and now he’s having his biggest show ever, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. New Yorkers can … Read More
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art called last year’s show of Leon Levenstein’s photos “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players,” it was clear that director Thomas Campbell had ushed in a new era of irreverence in exhibition titles. This year the museum followed up with “G … Read More
