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One Fine Show: Remedios Varo at the Art Institute of Chicago
If there is one label more overused than “science fiction” these days, it’s probably “surreal.” Both terms summarize much about the times we occupy yet I’ve just seen them used to describe,...
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A New Exhibit Maps Cubism’s End to an Explosion of Artistic Experimentation
Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that Cubism paved the way for dozens of subsequent modern art movements, from Purism and Precisionism to Surrealism, and continues to inform abstraction in art...
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Artist Mitsushige Nishiwaki Wants People to Be Happy
Mitsushige Nishiwaki wasn’t always an artist. He first traveled the world as a salesman for an industrial materials company, getting inspired on the long walks he would take to get to know a new city....
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Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mural Is Being Sold to the Public at $165 Per Share
At first glance, the social commentary of Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mascara, a graffiti mural depicting a 1950s-style housewife pushing her male counterpart into a freezer, isn’t obvious. But the work’s...
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One Fine Show: Matthew Barney’s ‘REPRESSIA (decline)’ at LACMA
Shame on you if you missed Matthew Barney’s Secondary, his show at his studio in Long Island City, which closed earlier this summer. Its centerpiece was a film of the same name, the ostensible subject...
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Fall Arts Preview 2023: 10 Must-See Exhibitions
Some of the most anticipated art exhibitions are opening this fall, from Marina Abramovic’s 50-year retrospective at the Royal College of Art in London to the John Waters retrospective at the Academy...
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Where Burning Man Art Ends Up After the Burn
Each year, in late August, about 80,000 people flock to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to take up temporary residency in what is known as Black Rock City: a pop-up destination 100 miles northeast of Reno....
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The Artist as Destroyer
Underneath the beds in Barbara Nechis’ house in Calistoga, California are framed paintings—specifically, her own paintings. Indianapolis, Indiana artist Charles Warren Mundy has more than one hundred...
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Don’t Miss: ‘Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh fans who can’t make it to New York City for the final few days of the Met’s exhibition of the artist’s signature cypresses still have time to catch the Art Institute of Chicago’s Van Gogh and...
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One Fine Show: ‘Dreamland’ at the McNay Art Museum
You might be surprised to learn that Tim Burton did not direct the beloved 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. He only produced it. It was. in fact. directed by his collaborator Henry Selick,...
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On View Now: Simone Leigh at ICA Boston, Isa Genzken at the Neue...
Now’s the time to finally see the exhibitions you’ve been hoping to catch all summer, and ones like Lauren Halsey’s takeover of the Met’s rooftop are worth braving the still-blazing sun. Here, we...
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Don’t Miss: ‘Legacies of Modernism’ at Phillips London
The story of the friendship between gallerist Mikael Andersen and the multidisciplinary artist Günther Förg underpins Legacies of Modernism, a selling exhibition on view at Phillips’ London...
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Creatively Defiant Divas: A Q&A with Artist Kevin Sabo
Bold bodies move across the foreground seducing you with faces that don’t let you break eye contact in Kevin Sabo’s work. His paintings transcend limitations of gender, the body and...
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The Scream of Nature: Munch and Reflections on the Anthropocene at The Clark
Nature radiates, vibrates, mutates. It chants, sways and dances. Two shows at the Clark Institute illuminate this joy and complexity through the phenomenological renditions of Edvard Munch (1863-1944)...
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When Artist Saul Steinberg Reimagined an Icon
Observer described him as “the best-loved nonwriter in the history of The New Yorker.” Herman Miller’s WHY dubbed him an “enthusiastic indoorsman.” Interiors magazine said he was a “chronicler of the...
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One Fine Show: ‘Tender Loving Care’ at MFA Boston
Collection shows are compelling because your average museum has a literal warehouse full of great materials that the public hardly ever gets to see. Most shows are curated around a time period or a...
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Charting Remedios Varo’s Mystical Voyage into the Surreal and Sacred
It would be easy to pigeonhole Remedios Varo: Science Fictions as another nod to female artists. The exhibition is the Art Institute of Chicago’s first solo exhibition dedicated to a woman Surrealist...
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Rediscovering Basquiat On Great Jones Street
A few art galleries still exist on Great Jones Street, including Aicon and La MaMa. But around the corner is Zero Bond, the members-only club paparazzi regularly stake out for glimpses of Taylor Swift...
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Helen Toomer On Photography, New York Art Fairs and the Challenges of the Job
It’s an art fair week in New York City, which means Uber prices will be surging and high-heeled feet aching all across Manhattan well into Sunday. This season marks the debut of newcomer PHOTOFAIRS,...
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What Not to Miss at PHOTOFAIRS New York
Few mediums have so radically impacted visual culture as photography, yet its prominence has often been downplayed at biennales and fairs. But things are thankfully shifting, and art world events are...
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