The Royal Academy’s “Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism” Is a Mixed Bag This decades-spanning survey offers insight into the development of Brazilian artistic identity but lacks verve. By Simon Coates
Lasar Segall’s Happy Life Didn’t Make for Great Art There are artists whose lives are more compelling than their art, and the Brazilian painter Lasar Segall (1891-1957)–now the subject By Hilton Kramer
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Milton Friedman: The Unlikeliest Bedfellows in American Capitalism By Roy Swan
Meet the Collector: Karun Thakar’s Mission to Share the Hidden Histories of Indian Chintz By Cyrus Naji