Museum Confidential

How will our evermore digital civilization persist beyond our lifetime? Audio- and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art works often link to websites that no longer exist; etc. This book argues that the vulnerability of new media in the art world points to a larger crisis for our social memory.

"Printmaking: Art and the Written Word" reveals several centuries of European history; the materials in this exhibit reflect spirituality, culture, and academic thought from the Reformation up to the time of the Italian courts.

Known for his camera work on films like "The Shawshank Redemption," "No Country for Old Men," "Blade Runner 2049," and "1917," Deakins is also, as his book "Byways" makes clear, a brilliant and perceptive B&W photographer.

Delving into on a splendid, newly opened show now at Philbrook; it's a special gathering of masterpieces spanning 500 years of European painting.

We learn all about an art exhibition, opening soon in London, which collects 60+ works made by noted African-American artists over the past century.

What is the "art market" exactly? And how, and to what degree, has it changed in recent years?

We learn about an important, historic, soon-to-close Van Gogh show in Detroit.

Sprung is the Brooklyn-based artist who was commissioned to paint the official White House portrait of Michelle Obama.

A chat with the noted contemporary British artist, Dave White.

"Joan Didion: What She Means" is an art exhibition now on view at UCLA's Hammer Museum; it renders the great writer's life and work through the creations of nearly 50 artists, including Betye Saar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Maren Hassinger, and Ed Ruscha.