On View ‘Greater New York,’ MoMA PS1’s Closely Watched Survey, Returns to Excavate New York’s Past and Reckon With Its Surreal Present What began as a survey of New York's present feels more intergenerational and international than ever. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 5, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Exhibitors at a Fair in Dubai Have Covered Up the Private Parts of Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ Fearing It Might Offend Visitors The Italian pavilion's organizers insisted the decision wasn’t censorship, but instead a kind of conceptual gesture. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Documenta 15 Unveils Its Artist List for 2022, Including Jimmie Durham, Dan Perjovschi, and Lots of Collectives Ruangrupa released this list using a newspaper whose proceeds benefit the homeless. By Kate Brown, Oct 1, 2021
On View Five Artist-Collective Nominees Go Beyond Empty Talk to Deliver Acts of Solidarity in Turner Prize Exhibition With a shortlist composed entirely of collectives, this year's Turner Prize exhibition reflects the contemporary-art world's activist tilt. By Caroline Elbaor, Sep 29, 2021
On View It’s on Us to Queer the Metaverse: A Digitally Savvy Athens Biennale Tackles the Promises and Pitfalls of Web 3.0 The multi-venue exhibition also looks at our fragile physical existence and the class and racial inequalities affecting it. By Hili Perlson, Sep 28, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions How the Fondation Louis Vuitton and an Army of Conservators Persuaded Russia to Green Light a Landmark Exhibition of Modern Art “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” is the second exhibition devoted to a major Russian collection at the Paris institution. By Anna Sansom, Sep 27, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See the Highly Ambitious, Two-City Jasper Johns Retrospective at the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Despite gossip about the show's two curators not getting along, the two exhibitions work together just fine. By Ben Davis, Sep 27, 2021
Reviews Kara Walker’s Museum Survey in Basel Is Difficult, Disturbing—and Very Necessary “A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be” at the Kunstmuseum Basel shows Walker's ability to keep her audience off balance. By Emmanuel Balogun, Sep 23, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions ‘I Got an Illicit Thrill’: Watch Artist Brian Jungen Cut Up Nike Sneakers to Expose How Consumer Culture Exploits Native Communities As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 23, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Art Collective Meow Wolf Just Opened Its Largest Immersive Funhouse to Date in Denver—and It’s Bigger Than the Guggenheim The massive interactive art installation hides the clues to a mystery—and the work of 120 local artists. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 22, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions ‘We Wanted to Unmoor Her From the 1950s’: A Joan Mitchell Retrospective at SFMOMA Shows the Artist as You’ve Never Seen Her Before The show includes everything from student work to the final paintings she made before her death. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 20, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Hoping to Snag Art Basel-Bound Buyers, Berlin Dealers Showcased Their Emerging Talent for the Fall Edition of the City’s Gallery Weekend Dealers convinced the event to close one day early to give time for galleries to rush to Basel. By Kate Brown, Sep 20, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: Millennial Art Star Avery Singer Conjures Dazzling Paintings Out of Digital Chaos in Her Debut Show at Hauser & Wirth Works like 'China Chalet' and 'Wojak Battle Scene' show why Singer has her paintbrush on the pulse. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 16, 2021
On View In Pictures: See the Joyful Works Included in Frieze Sculpture 2021, From a Pearlescent Monolith to a Quirky Pineapple The art fair’s sculpture garden is open in London’s Regent’s Park through October 31. By Naomi Rea, Sep 15, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Inside the Met Costume Institute’s Ode to American Style, Which Presents U.S. Fashions for Every Mood The exhibition opens on September 18th. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 14, 2021
