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.
The Hirshhorn exhibit offers a fine-grained account of an artistic career that spans more than 70 years
After a two-year, Covid-related delay, One With Eternity, featuring five works by the beloved nonagenarian Yayoi Kusama, is now open at the Hirshhorn.
Soft Water Hard Stone is curated by Margot Norton and Jamillah James
The 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, the museum's fifth, exhibits works by 40 artists and collectives from around the world including Baltimore's Cynthia Daignault and Kahlil Robert Irving.
A compelling mix of archival and artistic presentations, combining didactic texts with creative installations and works by visual artists
Their first goal was to understand just what has been lost: to reconstruct the contours of the expansive collection.
"Laurie Anderson: The Weather" presents more than fifty works from across a renowned career
Featuring sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, and juxtaposing pieces from across her career with a host of recent works , "The Weather" is a dazzling display of what the art historian RoseLee Goldberg once called Anderson’s “powerful inventive drive.
A rewarding show of rarely seen prints that examines gynophobia in early print culture to the eventual rise of first-wave feminism
This show is richly rewarding, due in large part to a range of rarely seen objects and some truly clever juxtapositions.
A conceptually crisp and sharp critique of American xenophobia and racism
The stock icon has yielded to something darker and more ominous.
Timothy App: States of Mind at Goya Contemporary
In discussing his work, App likes to allude to his lifelong attempt to find what he calls authentic ways of making a painting.
What happens when true believers have to confront scientific facts?
A lively and mostly persuasive argument that the Shroud of Turin is not Jesus Christ's funerary cloth, but was instead likely fabricated by an artist in the 1350s, and then slowly embraced by Catholic officials who saw an opportunity for profit.
On the BMA's reopened sculpture garden and the future of monuments
It’s hard to reconcile my rich memories of the place with what now reads as a limited and parochial landscape.
Even as much of the art world retreated to the safety of the internet, some creative workers continued their trade in the public sphere
We now know that this will be a matter of months, rather than weeks: the Cleveland Museum of Art has already canceled all programming through the end of June, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art expects to remain closed at least through July.
A remarkable depth is on clear display in this small but potent exhibition at The Walters
You don’t have to be a connoisseur or a Catholic to enjoy this medieval relic.
