Reviews Biennials Have Been Accused of Being Too Unwieldy—So the Busan Biennial Hired an Editor Instead of a Curator Jörg Heiser's debut biennial is (perhaps unsurprisingly) tightly edited and well argued. By Hili Perlson, Sep 19, 2018
Exhibitions How MoMA Rewrote the Rules to Collect Choreographer Simone Forti’s Convention-Defying ‘Dance Constructions’ On view in the new show about Judson Dance Theater, Forti's works required special vision to acquire—and have become the media arts department's most requested work. By Catherine Wagley, Sep 19, 2018
On View Munich Says Its Art Scene Doesn’t Get Enough Attention. Can a New Gallery Share Program Change That? The first edition of Various Others shows promise. By Kate Brown, Sep 18, 2018
Exhibitions How Europe’s Oldest Arts Festival Is Confronting the Rise of Nationalism Set in the Austrian city of Graz, the arts festival Steirischer Herbst will try to delve into populism's grey zones. By Kate Brown, Sep 18, 2018
Exhibitions The Artists Who Yanked Their Work From London’s Design Museum Over Arms Funding Are Staging a Show to Protest Tainted Arts Sponsorship The Guerrilla Girls, Shepard Fairey, and Tania Bruguera lend work to the sequel to the Design Museum’s exhibition. By Javier Pes, Sep 17, 2018
On View 5Pointz Is Gone But Its Artists Have Reunited to Turn a New York Stairwell Into a ‘Museum of Street Art’ The citizenM hotel has turned over wall space to the street artists whose work was whitewashed from the 5Pointz graffiti mecca. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 17, 2018
Exhibitions Pat Steir Will Make Monumental Waterfall Paintings for Both the Barnes and the Hirshhorn in 2019 The commissions are the latest coup for the 78-year old artist, whose career is on a hot streak. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 17, 2018
Reviews The Bienal de Sao Paulo Makes a Bold Attempt to Change the Way We Look at Art. Can It Work? At a time of crisis in Brazil, curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro has eschewed spectacle for a much more contemplative, quiet biennial. By Ben Davis, Sep 17, 2018
On View How Rising Star Firelei Báez Uses Yoruba Myth and Her Afro-Caribbean Heritage in Her Profound ‘Joy Out of Fire’ Murals The artist opens a new show at Kavi Gupta in Chicago this weekend. By Jasmin Hernandez, Sep 14, 2018
On View We Asked a Comedian, a Rock Star, and 13 Other Culturally Plugged-in People to Tell Us Their Must-See Fall Art Shows Culture mavens from around the globe name the shows that excite them the most—from Alex Prager in New York to Basquiat in Paris. By artnet News, Sep 14, 2018
Exhibitions After His Show Was Canceled Due to Alleged Neo-Nazi Ties, Boyd Rice Claims ‘Offers Are Coming In’ to Restage It A listserv thread sparked outrage. Then, the show was canceled. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2018
On View ‘You Have to be Confronted With Reality All the Time’: Watch Artist Gabriel Orozco Explain Why the Street Is His Studio As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By artnet News, Sep 13, 2018
On View From a Turner Prize Winner to a Mysterious Viral Prankster, Meet 6 Artists Making Their New York Solo Show Debuts This Fall Kicking off the new season with artists showing their work in the city for the first time. By Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Sep 11, 2018
Exhibitions The Gwangju Biennale Is Overly Ambitious, Muddled, Difficult to Navigate—and, at Times, Extremely Rewarding Standout works in "Imagined Borders" include Aernout Mik’s memorable new video about the psychological cost of combating terrorism. By Hili Perlson, Sep 11, 2018
On View ‘My Whole Life Has Been Following This Single Material’: How Liza Lou’s Obsession With Beads Transformed a Village in South Africa The artist's show of glass-beaded works inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chelsea gallery. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 10, 2018
