Reviews The Oslo Biennale, Which Will Unfold Across the City Over Five Years, Reimagines What Public Art Can Be The inaugural edition of the biennale highlights ephemeral art in a changing city. By Hili Perlson, May 28, 2019
Reviews The 2019 Whitney Biennial Shows America’s Artists Turning Toward Coded Languages in Turbulent Times There are at least three ways to look at the dominant trend in the 2019 survey. By Ben Davis, May 20, 2019
Reviews The New Gretchen Bender Survey Is a Triumph, Revealing a Visionary Artist—and a Tough Lesson About the Power of Media Bender's major installation, 'Total Recall,' is a precise reflection on the need for critical art to be made in the present tense. By Ben Davis, Apr 26, 2019
Reviews At the Broad Museum, the Groundbreaking ‘Soul of a Nation’ Puts a Refreshed Focus on the Struggles of Black Artists in LA The importance of art collectives—and collective struggle—stands out here. By Colony Little, Apr 11, 2019
Reviews Performance Art Star Anne Imhof Brings Violence, Desire, and Flaming Flowers to London’s Tate Modern After winning the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, the German artist returns to the limelight with the four-hour opus 'Sex.' By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Mar 26, 2019
Reviews Artist Ian Cheng Has Created an AI Creature Named ‘BOB.’ Now, It’s Up to Viewers to Decide His Fate Cheng is feeling out the potentials of Artificial Intelligence for art. By Ben Davis, Mar 18, 2019
Reviews What Ghosts Haunt Jasper Johns’s New Skeleton Paintings? We May Never Know (and That’s the Point) Reassembling the broken symbolism of the venerable American painter's 2018 works. By Ben Davis, Feb 21, 2019
Reviews At the Mayor’s Mansion in New York, a Powerful Art Show Honors the Diversity of 100 Years of Women’s Struggles 'She Persists' is part of First Lady Chirlane McCray's efforts to activate the mayor's home as the 'People's House.' By Eleanor Heartney, Feb 11, 2019
Reviews Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Probably Won’t Scare the Horror Fans, But It May Terrify the Art World The art-world ghost story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is about to launch on Netflix. By Ben Davis, Jan 31, 2019
Reviews In ‘The White Album,’ Arthur Jafa Invents a New Film Language to Take on the Clichés of Empathy In his striking follow-up to 'Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death,' Jafa trains his lens squarely on the subject of whiteness. By Colony Little, Jan 25, 2019
Reviews Why Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick’s ‘Labor Studies’ Is One of the Best Shows I’ve Seen in a Long Time Deeply rooted in the city, Calhoun and McCormick reveal an ever-changing landscape full of joys and injustices. By Ben Davis, Jan 11, 2019
Reviews The Whitney’s Warhol Show Strives to Spotlight His Human Side. But It’s His Cynicism That Remains Most Surprising The show presents a very un-Warholian Warhol—and that may be wishful thinking. By Ben Davis, Nov 26, 2018
Reviews Why Hilma af Klint’s Occult Spirituality Makes Her the Perfect Artist for Our Technologically Disrupted Time At the Guggenheim, "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future" makes you rethink what it means to be modern. By Ben Davis, Oct 23, 2018
Reviews The Carnegie International Wants You to Feel ‘Museum Joy’ Again, With Mr. Rogers, Vietnamese Coffee, and Its Own Past The latest edition of the country's oldest recurring survey of contemporary art opened this weekend at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 18, 2018
Reviews A New Exhibition Showcases the Most Legendary Couples in Modern Art History. Too Bad It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story A curatorial tour de force now in London is undermined by the way it plays down uncomfortable truths raised by the #MeToo movement. By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Oct 15, 2018
