Art Critic and Art Historian
Kerr Houston has taught art history and art criticism at MICA since 2002. He is the author of the book An Introduction to Art Criticism (Pearson, 2012), and his recent writings range from an article on a metaphorical aspect of the Sistine Chapel chancel screen, in Source, to an extended essay on Candice Breitz’s Extra, in Nka.
24 Historical Objects Offer Visions of Well-Being Worth Revisiting
Exhibition at the Walters through December 15 explores medieval Europeans' interest in monitoring bodies, curing ailments, and attaining good health.
Circle in a Circle: Compulsion, An Exhibit by a MICA Senior
Katherine Pon-Cooper’s "Circle in Circle: Compulsion" is a conceptually tight and handsomely executed show mounted in MICA’s Pinkard Gallery.
Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative
These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.
An exhibit where theories pale in the bright light of unabashed enthusiasm.
Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.
An Exhibit of Diverse Objects that Collectively Attest to Deep Continuities and Extensive Cultural Exchanges.
While the Walters has been able to boast of one of the strongest collections of Ethiopian art in the world since the 1990s, the current exhibition offers a meaningful attempt to tell a complex and relational visual history in unprecedentedly detailed ways.
Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs Revisited: A Legacy Unfolds at the Baltimore Museum of Art
A Vast Network of Creative Community is Revealed in the Enigmatic Artistry of Quilter Elizabeth Talford Scott
Amos Badertscher’s Photography Survey at UMBC Captures Baltimore’s Queer Underground from the 1960s to the early 2000s
The images in Lost Boys can feel haunting, due to the deaths of both author and subjects. But in the end, this is a show that generates considerable power from the process of making present.
History Beyond the Keeping of Time
Duffield’s clocks helped to support the Protestant notion that one should always be doing, rather than simply being. And in that sense, he was an early architect of our own 24/7 culture, with its similar emphasis on the value of constant productivity.
A Seductive Rehang Maps a Continent's Diverse Influences
Wondering what lay beyond, say, the borders of the ancient Roman Empire or the reach of colonial France?
In Washington, DC, an ambitious exhibition considers British photography from the turbulent '70s and '80s
A concise but impactful exhibition of photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art, presents a boisterous and iconoclastic photographic culture
“We organized this Biennial to reflect these precarious and improvised times.”
Curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, this show took shape in a period marked by a relentless virus, upsetting political news, horrifying police brutality, and a grinding land war.
'Activating the Renaissance' at the Walters brings contemporary artists into conversation with altarpieces and saints
Flanked by ranks of Quattrocento holy figures, Stephen Towns’ protagonist feels at once at home and strikingly distinct.
