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 3, 2021
Reviews Why Estonian Artist Flo Kasearu Enlisted Domestic Violence Survivors as Collaborators on Her New Show Estonia has staggeringly high rates of violence against women. By Kate Brown, Feb 11, 2021
Reviews With Paintings Drawn From the Chihuahuan Desert, Carlos Rosales-Silva Evokes What North American Art Looked Like Pre-Colonization Moving beyond the trap of "nopal art." By Barbara Calderón, Feb 3, 2021
Reviews Why the New ART CLUB2000 Retrospective Offers Lessons for Today’s Artists That Transcend Pure ’90s Nostalgia The art collective as conceptual "pose band." By Ben Davis, Dec 10, 2020
Reviews The Asia Society Triennial Has a Lot of the Same Problems Most Biennials Do. But It Also Crystallizes a New Trend in Art "We Do Not Dream Alone" gives a glimpse of "delegated handicraft" as a biennial style. By Ben Davis, Nov 25, 2020
Reviews ‘How Does Information and the Body Travel Now, When People Cannot?’: Frieze Live’s Experimental New Format Probes New Possibilities for Performance Art The fair's performance platform boldly experimented with physical performances for digital audiences. By Kate Brown, Oct 12, 2020
Reviews A Glossy Art Show at Berghain Nightclub Counters Cynical Expectations and Offers a Moving Love Song to Berlin The legendary venue has reopened with a 117-artist show. By Hili Perlson, Sep 9, 2020
Reviews Dominated by Female Voices and Queer Perspectives, the Berlin Biennial Amplifies the Plights and Triumphs of Marginalized Communities The 11th edition of the Berlin Biennale, "The Crack Begins Within" is open across various locations in the German capital. By Hili Perlson, Sep 8, 2020
Reviews Defying the Odds, Marina Abramović Presents the World Premiere of Her First-Ever Opera in Munich—Here’s What It’s Like The artist takes to the stage to die seven times in highly anticipated performance about celebrity, love, and inner crisis. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 1, 2020
Reviews The Staff of a Tiny Locked-Down Dutch Museum Is Offering to Talk to Anyone Who Wants to Chat About Art. So I Gave Them a Call. The LAM Museum is keeping the public engaged by offering one-on-one phone calls with its employees. By Kate Brown, Apr 20, 2020
Reviews Rem Koolhaas’s Frequently Obnoxious ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Prizes Navel-Gazing Over Relevance The most lauded architect of our lifetimes delivers literal and figurative wallpaper. By Janelle Zara, Mar 16, 2020
Reviews Agnes Pelton Went to the Desert in Search of Solace. Her Paintings at the Whitney Show She Found Something Magical There A survey of the spiritual-abstractionist painter's oracular art brings an offbeat brand of enlightenment to New York. By Ben Davis, Mar 13, 2020
Reviews The Mexican Muralists Had a Vital Influence on US Art. Can Their Revolutionary Approach Offer Lessons for the Present? "Vida Americana" at the Whitney tells a tale that should provoke some self-reflection in the present. By Barbara Calderón, Feb 26, 2020
Reviews Here Are the 11 Best Works of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News Staff Here's the very best of what we saw around the world. By Artnet News, Dec 30, 2019
Reviews How Yvette Mayorga’s Luscious Artworks Use ‘Rasquache Aesthetics’ to Address the Dark Side of the American Dream The first-generation Mexican-American artist is rising fast based on her colorful style and themes that address the Latinx experience. By Barbara Calderón, Nov 27, 2019