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In the United States, the historical formulation of the “self-taught artist” is loaded with assumptions about class, race, and mental health that have obfuscated the figure of the maker. Because…
For more than six decades, Yoko Ono has challenged the conventions of art by inviting the audience into the work itself—either by being part of the art or stepping on it. A new exhibition at The…
Marilyn Monroe has never really faded away. One hundred years after her birth, and more than six decades after her death, she continues to hold a place in pop culture. Billie Eilish channeled…
Improvisation, the ability to respond spontaneously to the moment, is a defining characteristic found in the work of two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-…
A current pocket exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York hearkens back to a time when the relationship between artist and patron was more direct, intimate, and collaborative than it is now that…
Tavares Strachan approaches art the way he thinks about music—fluid, improvisational, and open to interpretation. “Because I grew up listening to so much music, I just love the idea that it…
“The Smithsonian is not going to show somebody like me right now — specifically me,” Catherine Opie says in a recent Teams interview from Los Angeles, her voice matter-of-fact. “I’m not welcome…
The idea that 18th and 19th century landscape painting could be the setting for one of art history’s fiercest rivalries may seem unlikely, but Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals…
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains,” said Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). In Sacha Guitry’s 1916 silent film, there is a chilling and moving excerpt of Renoir painting. The artist’s hands…
The first major exhibition since 1955 of over 140 works by the great Florentine master Fra Angelico (1395-1455) was featured during the past year at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo…
Upside Down Zebra, the felicitously named exhibition at The Watermill Center (the storied experimental art venue and residency founded by the late Robert Wilson in 1992 on Long Island’s East…
A spacetime grid is a visual diagram in physics to grasp a four-dimensional reality—three dimensions of space and one of time.
When the new National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design opened in Oslo in 2022, its ambition was to challenge rigid boundaries between creative disciplines.
At age 98, painter Lois Dodd celebrates her first major European retrospective at The Hague in the Netherlands. Open now through April 2026, Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral reveals how…
When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the major retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, positions Wifredo Lam as a political, spiritual, and insurgent force—a world-…
