Art & Exhibitions German Institutions Are Spending More Than $3 Million on Programming That Addresses Berlin’s Sordid (and Long Glossed-Over) Colonial Past The five-year program examines how the city benefited from Germany's expansions abroad. By Kate Brown, Feb 5, 2020
On View ‘I Am a Photographer, Not an Artist’: Legendary War Photographer Don McCullin on Why the Distinction Matters McCullin spoke to us about his landscape photographs, on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. By Naomi Rea, Feb 4, 2020
Art & Exhibitions How Two Artists Meticulously Reproduced a Tehran Apartment Gallery in Pittsburgh as a Way Around the Iranian Travel Ban With simultaneous shows in Iran and the US, the artists are making a statement about similarity and difference. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 3, 2020
On View A Dazzling New Show Reveals How African Artists Are Reinventing Fashion Photography—See Their Work Here The show stresses the ways in which fashion can be an essential part of a person's identity. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 31, 2020
On View ‘I’m Not Trying to Satisfy an Audience’: Watch Paul McCarthy Transform Historical Depictions of Purity Into Objects of Revulsion As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 30, 2020
Art & Exhibitions Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week This week, check out a panel discussion on art and the internet, plus Mark Flood's protest signs go on view. By Artnet News, Jan 27, 2020
On View On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 75 Moving Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Going on View in Germany Photographer Martin Schoeller has captured the portraits of survivors of the World War II atrocities. By Kate Brown, Jan 27, 2020
On View Alfred Jarry’s ‘King Ubu’ Inspired Everyone From the Dadaists to the Beatles—and His Fascist Buffoon Is Now More Relevant Than Ever Without the 19th-century French firebrand, we may never have had Surrealism, Dada, or $120,000 bananas. By Menachem Wecker, Jan 27, 2020
On View How Stanley Kubrick’s Vision of the Future in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Predicted the Way We Consume News Today The Museum of the Moving Image's show gives a glimpse of headlines from a hypothetical future digital New York Times. By Ben Davis, Jan 27, 2020
On View Museums Have Stumbled When It Comes to Curating Indigenous American Art. These Native Students at Yale Are Modeling a New Way Forward "If we didn't take this opportunity, the show was likely not going to happen," one of the student curators said. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 24, 2020
Art & Exhibitions ‘Everyone Is So Afraid to Visit’: Curator Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi on How the Lahore Biennale Can Help Pakistan Overcome International Isolation The late curator Okwui Enwezor also had an influence on the 2020 show. By Javier Pes, Jan 24, 2020
On View ‘It Helped Me Maintain a Certain Vitality’: Watch the Late Nancy Spero Explain How Collaborating With Fellow Artists Strengthened Her Work As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 23, 2020
Art & Exhibitions The Obama Presidential Portraits, Which Smashed Attendance Records in DC, Will Travel the US on a Five-Museum Tour The National Portrait Gallery's director credits Brooklyn Museum's Anne Pasternak for floating the idea. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 23, 2020
Art & Exhibitions The ‘Mad Genius’ Painter Noah Davis Died at Just 32. Now David Zwirner Gallery Is Doing Its Best to Make Him a Legend Curated by Helen Molesworth, the show brings together Davis's painting with a room modeled on the Underground Museum he founded in LA. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 22, 2020
On View What Happens When an Art Museum Is Conceived to Capitalize on the Experience Economy? Fotografiska New York Is About to Find Out The Swedish for-profit institution is expanding fast. What does its success tell us about the state of museums today? By Zachary Small, Jan 22, 2020