Reviews What Ghosts Haunt Jasper Johns’s New Skeleton Paintings? We May Never Know (and That’s the Point) Reassembling the broken symbolism of the venerable American painter's 2018 works. By Ben Davis, Feb 21, 2019
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 10, 2019
Reviews Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Probably Won’t Scare the Horror Fans, But It May Terrify the Art World The art-world ghost story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is about to launch on Netflix. By Ben Davis, Jan 30, 2019
Reviews In ‘The White Album,’ Arthur Jafa Invents a New Film Language to Take on the Clichés of Empathy In his striking follow-up to 'Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death,' Jafa trains his lens squarely on the subject of whiteness. By Colony Little, Jan 24, 2019
Reviews Why Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick’s ‘Labor Studies’ Is One of the Best Shows I’ve Seen in a Long Time Deeply rooted in the city, Calhoun and McCormick reveal an ever-changing landscape full of joys and injustices. By Ben Davis, Jan 11, 2019
Reviews The Whitney’s Warhol Show Strives to Spotlight His Human Side. But It’s His Cynicism That Remains Most Surprising The show presents a very un-Warholian Warhol—and that may be wishful thinking. By Ben Davis, Nov 25, 2018
Reviews Why Hilma af Klint’s Occult Spirituality Makes Her the Perfect Artist for Our Technologically Disrupted Time At the Guggenheim, "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future" makes you rethink what it means to be modern. By Ben Davis, Oct 22, 2018
Reviews The Carnegie International Wants You to Feel ‘Museum Joy’ Again, With Mr. Rogers, Vietnamese Coffee, and Its Own Past The latest edition of the country's oldest recurring survey of contemporary art opened this weekend at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 18, 2018
Reviews A New Exhibition Showcases the Most Legendary Couples in Modern Art History. Too Bad It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story A curatorial tour de force now in London is undermined by the way it plays down uncomfortable truths raised by the #MeToo movement. By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Oct 14, 2018
Reviews How Delacroix’s Revolutionary Art Was Forged in the Fires of Counterrevolutionary France The French Romantic lived through dramatic times, and helped shape their mythology. By Ben Davis, Oct 1, 2018
Reviews After a $200 Million Upgrade, Glenstone May Fulfill the Fantasy of the Perfect Private Museum. It’s Also a Little Unsettling. Glenstone is perhaps the most meticulous, detail-oriented museum you will ever visit. By Julia Halperin, Sep 25, 2018
Reviews Biennials Have Been Accused of Being Too Unwieldy—So the Busan Biennial Hired an Editor Instead of a Curator Jörg Heiser's debut biennial is (perhaps unsurprisingly) tightly edited and well argued. By Hili Perlson, Sep 19, 2018
Reviews The Bienal de Sao Paulo Makes a Bold Attempt to Change the Way We Look at Art. Can It Work? At a time of crisis in Brazil, curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro has eschewed spectacle for a much more contemplative, quiet biennial. By Ben Davis, Sep 16, 2018
Reviews In Guatemala, the Bienal de Arte Paiz Offers an Object Lesson in Community-Based Art Done Right The event both centers Central American production and decenters art from its traditional spaces. By John Pluecker, Sep 6, 2018
Reviews Can Kansas City’s Open Spaces Biennial Help Bridge the Divide in One of America’s Most Segregated Cities? Dan Cameron's new Midwestern biennial aims to mix international artists and local talent in Kansas City. By Max Lakin, Aug 31, 2018
