Reviews A Glossy Art Show at Berghain Nightclub Counters Cynical Expectations and Offers a Moving Love Song to Berlin The legendary venue has reopened with a 117-artist show. By Hili Perlson, Sep 9, 2020
Reviews Dominated by Female Voices and Queer Perspectives, the Berlin Biennial Amplifies the Plights and Triumphs of Marginalized Communities The 11th edition of the Berlin Biennale, "The Crack Begins Within" is open across various locations in the German capital. By Hili Perlson, Sep 8, 2020
Reviews Defying the Odds, Marina Abramović Presents the World Premiere of Her First-Ever Opera in Munich—Here’s What It’s Like The artist takes to the stage to die seven times in highly anticipated performance about celebrity, love, and inner crisis. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 1, 2020
Reviews The Staff of a Tiny Locked-Down Dutch Museum Is Offering to Talk to Anyone Who Wants to Chat About Art. So I Gave Them a Call. The LAM Museum is keeping the public engaged by offering one-on-one phone calls with its employees. By Kate Brown, Apr 20, 2020
Reviews Rem Koolhaas’s Frequently Obnoxious ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Prizes Navel-Gazing Over Relevance The most lauded architect of our lifetimes delivers literal and figurative wallpaper. By Janelle Zara, Mar 15, 2020
Reviews Agnes Pelton Went to the Desert in Search of Solace. Her Paintings at the Whitney Show She Found Something Magical There A survey of the spiritual-abstractionist painter's oracular art brings an offbeat brand of enlightenment to New York. By Ben Davis, Mar 13, 2020
Reviews The Mexican Muralists Had a Vital Influence on US Art. Can Their Revolutionary Approach Offer Lessons for the Present? "Vida Americana" at the Whitney tells a tale that should provoke some self-reflection in the present. By Barbara Calderón, Feb 25, 2020
Reviews Here Are the 11 Best Works of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News Staff Here's the very best of what we saw around the world. By Artnet News, Dec 29, 2019
Reviews How Yvette Mayorga’s Luscious Artworks Use ‘Rasquache Aesthetics’ to Address the Dark Side of the American Dream The first-generation Mexican-American artist is rising fast based on her colorful style and themes that address the Latinx experience. By Barbara Calderón, Nov 27, 2019
Reviews Lubaina Himid Was the Oldest Artist to Win the Turner Prize. With a New Show, She Is Trying to Bring Attention to (Much) Older Old Masters An exhibition by the Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid reshuffles the strict lines along which we observe the past. By Nina Siegal, Nov 26, 2019
Reviews What One Mysterious, Easily Overlooked German Painting Taught Me About How to Visit a Museum in the Age of Blockbusters Untangling why a little-known painting by Christoph Paudiß feels so prescient today. By Ben Davis, Nov 25, 2019
Reviews Rembrandt and Velázquez Lived in Warring Nations and Never Met. Incredibly, They Painted Like Brothers, a New Show Reveals Such is the argument of a new Baroque blockbuster show at the Rijksmuseum. By Nina Siegal, Nov 17, 2019
Reviews Julie Mehretu’s New LACMA Survey Reveals an Artist at the Peak of Her Power—But Also One Unusually Eager to Share the Credit The artist remaps strategies of power both on and off the canvas. By Catherine Wagley, Nov 10, 2019
Reviews Vija Celmins’s Stunning Show at the Met Breuer Is a Master Class in How Pictures Don’t Work Anymore The survey presents the artist's counterintuitive mission: to create a totally realist art that shows how the real is out of reach. By Blake Gopnik, Oct 21, 2019
Reviews The Lyon Biennale Responds to the Post-Industrial Economy, Only to Get Lost in Post-Human Reveries Held in a recently decommissioned washing machine factory, the event tries to grapple with the future of labor. By Terence Trouillot, Oct 20, 2019