We often scrutinize an artist’s workepoch game, searching for autobiographical clues. But in Titus Kaphar’s recent paintings, and in his new film, “Exhibiting Forgiveness,” such close reading is unnecessary. His life experience is laid bare, in all

People go to Giverny to see the gardens that moved Monet and to Arles for the fields behind van Gogh’s madness. They trek through the Louvre as if by magnetic force, seeking — what else? — the Mona Lisa selfie. But I went to Norway to see Harald Soh

Richard Mayhew, a painter of Black and Native American heritage who was known for his explosively colorful abstract landscapes — he called them “mindscapes” — that traced the emotional contours of nature as well as his forebears’ historical relation