Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and art critic who contributed essays on visual art, exhibitions, and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard from 2007 to 2017. Her writing for the magazine frequently examined major museum shows and the intersection of art, faith, and American culture. She is known for her sharp, independent criticism and has written for numerous publications on art and cultural topics.
From its inception, Christianity has been known as the religion of the cross. Among Christians, the cross is a symbol of Christ's passion and its part in the economy of salvation. To non-Christians, it is what St. Paul termed it: a scandal and a folly. How did a token of degradation inflicted…
From its inception, Christianity has been known as the religion of the cross. Among Christians, the cross is a symbol of Christ's passion and its part in the economy of salvation. To non-Christians, it is what St. Paul termed it: a scandal and a folly. How did a token of degradation inflicted…
Impresario of his father’s legacy, Christopher Rothko plays Vasari to papa Mark (1903-1970). Simultaneously pious and market-driven, his apotheosis of the painter is two things at once. Elegantly packaged, it is a promotional tool for sustaining his father's cult status and attendant asset value.…
The British painter Howard Hodgkin came to the Frick Collection some years ago to lecture. After pained attempts to deliver a prepared talk, he abandoned his notes for a monologue. Zig-zagging through art in general, his own work, and the historical canon, he came to that curious contemporary…
Modigliani
American Stories
Luis Meléndez
Strange times we live in when it takes a ballot initiative to confirm the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Stranger still when endorsing that definition through the democratic process brings threats and reprisals.
The Art Instinct
A painter's painter and one of Italy's most admired, Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), took his time.
Illuminating the Medieval Hunt
Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE