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
Reviews Rashid Johnson Has Unveiled an Ambitious New Series of Ocean-Inspired Artworks on the Spanish Island of Menorca Bronze boat sculptures and new paintings are on view in the gallery's space in the Mediterranean. By Naomi Rea, Jun 21, 2022
Reviews Venice Biennale Artists Want to Blow Up the Art System. But for Power-Brokers Around Town, That System Was in Full Flower The Venice Biennale's official programming and collateral exhibitions painted two very different pictures of where we are. By Kate Brown, Apr 25, 2022
Reviews Why Artist Heidi Norton’s Enigmatic Wax-and-Mushroom Monolith Contains Secrets Worth Sticking Around For Our national art critic gets up close to Norton's Plants Grow Through It, now on view at Sargent's Daughters. By Ben Davis, Mar 23, 2022
Reviews A Moving New Play About Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Collaboration With Andy Warhol Explores the Price of Artistic Immortality Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope star in 'The Collaboration.' By Naomi Rea, Mar 2, 2022
Reviews Idol Worship: The Brooklyn Museum’s Important New Warhol Show Casts the Pop Artist in a Spiritual Light "Andy Warhol: Revelation" paints an unusually complex picture of both Pop art and of contemporary faith. By Eleanor Heartney, Dec 13, 2021
Reviews In Her Experimental Hirshhorn Retrospective, Laurie Anderson Proves That She’s Still the Artist of Our Virtual Moment The multidisciplinary artist has been creating immersive art installations since before it was cool. By Eleanor Heartney, Nov 19, 2021
Reviews At the Shed, Instagram-Ready Art Collective Drift Serves Up a Spectacle Made of Floating Pillars and Lightweight Ideas 'Fragile Future' is curated by Kathleen Forde of the experience-art company Superblue. By Ben Davis, Oct 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
Reviews Abandoned for Decades, a Small and Ecologically Marvelous Island in Finland Is Home to the First-Ever Helsinki Biennial The show's curators and artists began from the premise that the show's carbon footprint should be minimized. By Hili Perlson, Aug 13, 2021
Reviews The Medici Were History’s Greatest Patrons—and Also Tyrants. The Met’s New Show Tackles How Art Served Power Bronzino is the star of "The Medici: Portraits and Politics"—while Michelangelo sits in judgement somewhere in the background. By Eleanor Heartney, Jul 7, 2021
Reviews The Immersive Van Gogh Installation Has Found Its Hit Demographic: Moms. Our Editor-in-Chief Asked His Own for Her Review Practical art-going advice from mom. By Seija Goldstein, Jul 5, 2021
Reviews Two Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Offer the Post-Pandemic Escapism Visitors Crave. They Have Weirdly Little to Do With Van Gogh Why Van Gogh now? By Ben Davis, Jun 24, 2021
Reviews 5 Outstanding Artists From ‘Super-Rough,’ the Experimental Exhibition Takashi Murakami Curated for the Outsider Art Fair Murakami brings some flair to the proceedings with a knowingly cluttered display. By Ben Davis, Jun 17, 2021
