Reviews The Big-Budget Sharjah Biennial Tackles Postcolonial Fallout With Beauty, Sentimentality, and Nuance The exhibition is a homage to the late curator Okwui Enwezor who began planning it before his untimely death. By Janelle Zara, Feb 23, 2023
Reviews Why It’s Worth Savoring Leonor Fini’s Enchanted Surrealism at Kasmin + Other Things to See and Read Plus, the Mariah Carey "I don't know her" meme as art, and the "New Ugliness" theorized. By Ben Davis, Feb 1, 2023
Reviews An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA Is Fun, Just Don’t Think About It Too Hard We need to talk about willful misreading of dystopia in the art-tech conversation. By Ben Davis, Jan 23, 2023
Reviews An African Photography Biennale Makes a Case for Mali as a Creative Hub—But the Global Art World’s Bad Habits May Hold It Back Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is artistic director of the 13th edition of Bamako Encounters. By Tobi Onabolu, Jan 18, 2023
Reviews Parallel Art Shows in London and Berlin Conjure Up Political Utopias… Using A.I. and Celebrity Deepfakes "Another World" does not let reality become swallowed up in fiction. Instead, it asks us to observe the line between the two—even as it blurs. By Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Jan 6, 2023
Reviews Two Thumbs Way, Way Down: Here Are 6 of the Worst Artworks We Saw Around the World in 2022 By Artnet News, Dec 27, 2022
Reviews Truffles, Private Collection Tours, and Tons of Prizes: Turin’s Contemporary Art Scene Shines During the Artissima Fair The region around the northern Italian city is a heartland of big industry, banking, and nobility—and many private foundations. By Kate Brown, Nov 8, 2022
Reviews Simone Leigh’s Assembly of Black Feminist Creativity in Venice Left Me in Awe 'Loophole of Retreat: Venice' is sure to be remembered as a historic gathering. By Folasade Ologundudu, Oct 21, 2022
Reviews I’ve Been to a Lot of Gallery Weekends. Vienna’s ‘Curated By’ Festival Was the Most Cohesive and Moving I’ve Seen Participants platformed artists from Ukraine and the surrounding region. By Kate Brown, Sep 22, 2022
Reviews Through Beauty and Pain, the 2022 Busan Biennale Flexes the Strength of South Korea’s Art Beyond Seoul There's a lot more to South Korea's art scene than the market buzz in Seoul. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 16, 2022
Reviews The Lyon Biennale Has Many Big, Beautiful Works—But Too Many Competing Curatorial Ideas The curators suggest the show's theme, "Manifesto of Fragility," positions vulnerability as "a foundation for empowerment." By Hettie Judah, Sep 16, 2022
Reviews How 12 Female Ukrainian Artists Capture the Experience of Conflict, From Outraged Poems on Bedsheets to Photos of Women Workers Curator Monika Fabijanska's important show at Fridman Gallery shows how 'the political is personal.' By Eleanor Heartney, Aug 2, 2022
Reviews In Mexico City, an Immersive Frida Kahlo Extravaganza Is Running on the Fumes of Her Legend, Trading Art History for Pure Vibes It's like watching the 2002 Hollywood movie 'Frida,' only even less accurate and without plot, characters, or setting. By Ben Davis, Jul 21, 2022
Reviews The Investigative Mode of the Berlin Biennale Raises an Uncomfortable Question: Who Is All This Research Really for? Several of the works on view rehearse well-documented stories, suggesting that facts speak for themselves. They don't. By Ben Davis, Jul 12, 2022
Reviews Documenta 15’s Focus on Populist Art Opens the Door to Art Worlds You Don’t Otherwise See—and May Not Always Want to There are conversations—about NGO aesthetics and the genuinely engaging parts of the show—that will be lost amid Documenta's current controversy. By Ben Davis, Jul 6, 2022