Art & Exhibitions Museums Used to Pay Huge Fees for Personal Couriers to Travel With Major Loans. New Technology Could Mean They Don’t Have to The acceptance of virtual couriers is rapidly transforming the way artworks travel around the world. By Kate Brown, Mar 19, 2021
On View With Indoor Gatherings Still Restricted in England, the Liverpool Biennial Has Opened Its Outdoor-Only Program First The indoor portion of the biennial should open later this spring. By Naomi Rea, Mar 18, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Artists and Scholars From Europe and Africa Are Collaborating to Help Kenya Reclaim Its Art From Foreign Museums There are 32,000 Kenyan objects held inside just 30 Western museums. By Kate Brown, Mar 18, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Museums Have Been Cautiously Reopening Across Europe. Here Are 8 Must-See Shows You Can Actually Visit in Person Right Now Check out a Phyllida Barlow survey, a group show about nature, a Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective, and more. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Mar 16, 2021
On View Ever Wonder What a 17th-Century Dutch Canal Smells Like? No? Well a New Show Invites You to Sniff the Odors of Art History Anyway The show also presents visitors with some nice smells. Promise! By Menachem Wecker, Mar 15, 2021
On View ‘I’ve Always Been Interested in Objects That Seem Badly Behaved’: Watch Phyllida Barlow Make Towering Art From Industrial Materials As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 11, 2021
On View ‘There Are Monsters on All Sides’: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer on Why Her Epic Painting of the Capitol Riot Is Not a Simple Morality Tale If you're on the Left, you're not meant to feel smug. By Brian Boucher, Mar 9, 2021
On View ‘It’s About Time’: Street Art Trailblazer Lady Pink on Why She’s Painting Memorials to the Unsung Legends of Graffiti The show at the Museum of Graffiti honors the likes of KEL139, Caine One, Crash, and Erni Vales. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 8, 2021
Art & Exhibitions The World’s First ‘Major’ NFT Art Exhibition Is About to Take Place in Beijing, Headlined by Beeple, Fewocious, and Mad Dog Jones As the NFT craze spreads, the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is staging the first museum show dedicated to crypto art. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 5, 2021
On View ‘The Fastest Way to Make a Populist Into a Humanist Is to Listen’: Artist Olafur Eliasson on How His Latest Work Encourages Empathy The artist says his new show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York is meant to encourage audiences to take a breath. By Devorah Lauter, Mar 5, 2021
On View New York’s Artechouse Is Staging an Immersive Instagram-Ready Experience Despite the Pandemic—See Images Here Its current show is based on shimmering fractals. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 5, 2021
On View ‘I’m Not Making Fun of It… Well, Yeah I Am’: Watch Artist John Feodorov Use Humor to Examine How the West Co-Opts Shamanism As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 5, 2021
On View A Sprawling James Turrell Exhibition Presents One Artwork From Each Decade of the Artist’s Storied Career—See Images Here The artist creates whole experiences from often simple interventions. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 3, 2021
Reviews Why KAWS’s Global Success May Well Be a Symptom of a Depressed Culture, Adrift in Nostalgia and Retail Therapy How to make sense of the popularity of an artist known for sad cartoons and collectable toys? By Ben Davis, Mar 2, 2021
Art & Exhibitions A Wildlife Habitat Has Cancelled Judy Chicago’s Smoke Sculpture for Desert X After Environmental Activists Raised Alarms A local writer had expressed her concerns about the work's potential environmental impact. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 1, 2021
