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.
Examining Influences and Art Historical Correlations in the Portraiture of Amy Sherald
Sherald's selection as Michelle Obama’s official portraitist, from a field of several dozen candidates, represented a dramatic moment in an already remarkable life story.
The influence of Fred Wilson’s seminal 1992 intervention at the Maryland Historical Society is at once easily summarized and remarkably complex
Fred Wilson in conversation with George Ciscle at MICA
Anne Truitt: Intersections, the single-room exhibition is modest in scale, but meaningfully complex in its implications
This exhibit does more or less exactly what a museum show should do, presenting iconic works in a way that implies their current relevance, while also framing them in provocative, productive ways.
