Xaviera Simmons Enlightens at the Queens Museum
Xaviera Simmons: Crisis Makes a Book Club at the Queens Museum in New York (open until March 5, 2023) is an expansive solo exhibition of recent work...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 22 December 2022
Review
The Sublimity of Marlene Dumas’ Portraits in Venice
On view until January 8, 2023, the exhibition Open-End, curated by Caroline Bourgeois for Palazzo Grassi in Venice, is a kaleidoscope of faces and...
Carlotta Mazzoli 15 December 2022
Joan Miró: A Major Retrospective at BAM in Mons
In Belgium, a major retrospective of Joan Miró is being held for the first time since 1956. It runs from October 8th, 2022 to January 8th, 2023 at...
Tommy Thiange 12 December 2022
Walter Gropius’ New Illustrated Biography
In the history of 20th-century design, modernists are seen as figures of the movement rather than people who were actually living and breathing. The...
Ania Kaczynska 9 December 2022
A Return to Just Above Midtown Gallery at MoMA
This season’s crop of museum exhibitions around New York City includes the highly-anticipated retrospective of Linda Goode Bryant’s experimental...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 5 December 2022
William Blake vs. The World by John Higgs: An Invitation to Blake’s Artistic Journey
Painter, poet, printmaker (and even called a prophet by many) of the pre-Romantic period in UK, William Blake is the subject of a recent book...
Montaine Dumont 28 November 2022
A New Guidebook for Artists and Art Lovers: The Oil Painter’s Color Handbook
As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about paintings, I still often lose sight of how they’re actually made. Theoretical and historical...
Louisa Mahoney 21 November 2022
Travel Around the World Through Tile Designs
Traditional Tile Designs of the World, the result of a UK design wholesaler’s marketing efforts, presents a colorful display of tile designs...
Alexandra Kiely 9 November 2022
Decorate Your Coffee Table with Prime, Art’s Next Generation
A corporate catalog of contemporary artists and art-world snobs or a colorful compendium of compelling creators? In this review of Prime. Art’s...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 7 November 2022
Artists in Margaret Randall’s Life: A Personal Journey
A new book by Margaret Randall: feminist poet, photographer, and social activist, containing intimate and personal recollections of her favourite artists.
Candy Bedworth 5 November 2022
Olafur Eliasson’s Investigation of Time and Space at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Nel tuo tempo (In your time), which recently opened in Florence, is Icelandic-Danish Olafur Eliasson’s largest exhibition and first solo show in...
Carlotta Mazzoli 3 November 2022
Find Paradise with Niki de Saint Phalle: Paradis Retrouvé in Opera Gallery
This week marks the birthday of Niki de Saint Phalle, the Franco-American artist who died in 2002. To celebrate the occasion, I visited a new...
Louisa Mahoney 29 October 2022
