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Ripping Yarns
LACMA’s “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915″ is two shows in one. The higher-profile show is a greatest hits collection of American painting that refuses to be limited by its...
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Autry Center Still Playing Cowboys & Indians
The Autry National Center of the American West recently named its first Native-American chairman, Marshall McKay, and he’s promised more emphasis on the Southwestern Museum collection, less on cowboy...
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“Katsina in Hopi Life” at the Autry
There are some who would say that the second greatest menace to museology (after Jeffrey Deitch) is Native American exhibits curated by committees of tribal elders. At its 2004 opening, the...
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Southwest Museum Is Back, Kind of
The Autry National Center has installed its first substantial exhibition in the Southwest Museum, “Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery.” Some feared that the Autry would do the bare minimum to placate...
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The Stakes Are Low in Autry’s Crowdfunding
Museums have turned to crowdfunding with some successes and many mortifying failures. The Autry’s new Indiegogo campaign, for its exhibition “Route 66: The Road and the Romance,” is unusual in several...
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Alexandre Hogue’s “Mother Earth Laid Bare”
California’s drought finds resonance in the Autry National Center’s “Route 66: The Road and the Romance.” One section of the exhibition documents the Dust Bowl, the 1930s drought that sent many Plains...
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Southwest Museum Gets a Bittersweet Distinction
The Southwest Museum is now officially a “national treasure.” That’s a booby prize. The National Trust for Historic Preservation so designates only those revered monuments slipping into obsolescence...
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