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 15, 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 1, 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 20, 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 11, 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 5, 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 12, 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 18, 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 26, 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 12, 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 6, 2021
