Art Criticism The Tudor Dynasty Seethed With Insecurity and Intrigue. A New Met Show Suggests That’s What Made Its Art So Lasting “The Tudors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a dazzling array of visual strategies for rule. By Eleanor Heartney, Oct 18, 2022
Reviews How 12 Female Ukrainian Artists Capture the Experience of Conflict, From Outraged Poems on Bedsheets to Photos of Women Workers Curator Monika Fabijanska's important show at Fridman Gallery shows how 'the political is personal.' By Eleanor Heartney, Aug 2, 2022
Art History Who Was Leonora Carrington? The Untold Story of the Mystical Surrealist Whose Visions Shaped the 2022 Venice Biennale In both her fiction and her art, Carrington predicted some of the major themes that haunt the present. By Eleanor Heartney, Mar 28, 2022
Art History Across the U.S., Museums Are Exploring Spiritualism and the Occult as Powerful, Unsung Forces in Art History "Another World" and "Supernatural America" offer a chance to reconsider the politics of long-derided cultural movements. By Eleanor Heartney, Feb 21, 2022
Reviews Idol Worship: The Brooklyn Museum’s Important New Warhol Show Casts the Pop Artist in a Spiritual Light "Andy Warhol: Revelation" paints an unusually complex picture of both Pop art and of contemporary faith. By Eleanor Heartney, Dec 13, 2021
Reviews In Her Experimental Hirshhorn Retrospective, Laurie Anderson Proves That She’s Still the Artist of Our Virtual Moment The multidisciplinary artist has been creating immersive art installations since before it was cool. By Eleanor Heartney, Nov 19, 2021
Reviews The Medici Were History’s Greatest Patrons—and Also Tyrants. The Met’s New Show Tackles How Art Served Power Bronzino is the star of "The Medici: Portraits and Politics"—while Michelangelo sits in judgement somewhere in the background. By Eleanor Heartney, Jul 7, 2021
Art World Spirituality Has Long Been Erased From Art History. Here’s Why It’s Having a Resurgence Today With an Agnes Pelton show on the horizon at the Whitney, we investigate the trend for spiritually-minded art. By Eleanor Heartney, Jan 6, 2020
Reviews At the Mayor’s Mansion in New York, a Powerful Art Show Honors the Diversity of 100 Years of Women’s Struggles 'She Persists' is part of First Lady Chirlane McCray's efforts to activate the mayor's home as the 'People's House.' By Eleanor Heartney, Feb 11, 2019
Reviews More Than Just a ’90s Firebrand: Three New Exhibitions Offer a More Complex Look at Revolutionary Artist David Wojnarowicz Exhibitions at the Whitney, NYU's Mamdouha Bobst Gallery, and P.P.O.W offer a comprehensive look at an artist whose influence we are only now beginning to truly grasp. By Eleanor Heartney, Jul 20, 2018
Reviews The Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Show Mines Catholicism for Eye Candy, and the Result Is Both Gorgeous and Unsettling The exhibition is the latest outing from Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. By Eleanor Heartney, May 10, 2018
