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 End), is, in a word, dazzling.
Art Galleries & Museums
A spacetime grid is a visual diagram in physics to grasp a four-dimensional reality—three dimensions of space and one of time.
In November, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opened its doors to international fanfare, unveiling the entire contents of Tutankhamen’s tomb, together for the first time since their excavation in 1922. The sprawling 5.4-million-square-foot complex near the Great Pyramids of Giza represents more than two decades of planning and an immense investment in Egypt’s infrastructure.
Upon reopening this April, The Frick Collection in New York will welcome visitors to climb its grand staircase—or ride one of its newly-installed elevators—to the second floor for the first time in the museum’s history.
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 this quintessentially American painter manages to imbue the quiet corners of everyday life with a sense of permanence, not unlike Vermeer.
After seven years of construction, the Studio Museum in Harlem reopened last month in a seven-story neo-Brutalist building designed by Adjaye Associates. The $160 million structure is reminiscent of the Breuer Building further downtown with its precast concrete façade and severe aesthetic.
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-builder who ultimately slips classification.
Having celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2024, the Surrealism movement remains highly relevant today, with Surrealist ideas and techniques widely embraced by contemporary artists. Its revolutionary approach to art and thought continues to influence art, culture, fashion, and film— offering a powerful perspective on current social and political concerns.
“In this search for my own identity, I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind and the enigma of the horizon.”–George Morrison
