On View ‘We Were Seeing and Feeling Anxiety’: The Whitney Biennial Curators on How Artists’ Struggle With Debt and Real Estate Shaped the 2019 Show Curators Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta talk about the cultural forces that influenced the show. By Terence Trouillot, May 13, 2019
On View The 10 Absolute Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale From Ghana's star-studded debut to Lithuania's delightful and chilling opera about climate change, here's what you won't want to miss. By artnet News, May 10, 2019
On View It’s Hard to Make Good Art About Climate Change. The Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is a Powerful Exception The pavilion presents a subtly unnerving performance about the laziness that leads to the end of the world. By Julia Halperin, May 10, 2019
Exhibitions In Ralph Rugoff’s Venice Biennale, the World’s Artists Take Planetary Doom as a Given, But Search for Joy Nonetheless There is much to be disquieted by in this year's Venice Biennale, artnet News chief art critic Ben Davis finds. By Ben Davis, May 10, 2019
Exhibitions John Ahearn’s Portrait of a Teen Art Prodigy Was Once Up for a Top Prize. Now, That Teen Is Up for the Same Prize—for a Portrait of Ahearn Devon Rodriguez is a 2019 finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. By Taylor Dafoe, May 10, 2019
Exhibitions How Much Does It Cost to Put on a Jeff Koons Show? Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Just Spent $1 Million "We were warned," said the museum's director of the expense. By Javier Pes, May 10, 2019
On View Venice Biennale in Pictures: See Work by Every Artist in the Giardini Section of the Sprawling 2019 Exhibition Part two of our photo series on the biennale's main exhibition "May You Live in Interesting Times," a show in two halves. By Ben Davis, May 9, 2019
On View Ghana’s Buzzed-About Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Clear First Step in the Country’s Bid to Become a Global Art Destination The knockout pavilion, which includes work by John Akomfrah and Ibrahim Mahama, appears to be part of a bigger plan. By Julia Halperin, May 9, 2019
On View ‘My Work Has the Potential for Evolution’: Watch Artist Martin Puryear Construct an Enormous Sculpture in a New York City Park As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, May 9, 2019
On View LOL, Great Pic: How Instagram and Meme Culture Are—and Aren’t—Transforming Photography A new show at SFMoMA puts image sharing into the longer history of photography. By Taylor Dafoe, May 9, 2019
On View A ‘DYSFUNCTIONAL’ Exhibition by Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Venice Is All About the Usefulness—and Uselessness—of Art and Design Twenty-two contemporary talents have taken over a grand, old palace on the Grand Canal. By In Partnership with Lombard Odier, May 9, 2019
On View Where Are Her Emails? Here They Are! Why Kenneth Goldsmith Printed Out All 60,000 of Hillary Clinton’s Emails for His New Show in Venice "It's a pile of papers, but it's a very powerful pile of papers," Goldsmith says. By Sarah Cascone, May 9, 2019
On View Can’t Make It to the Venice Biennale? See Work by Every Artist in the Arsenale Section of the Sprawling Exhibition The biennale's main exhibition "May You Live in Interesting Times" is a show in two halves. By Ben Davis, May 9, 2019
On View Step Inside the Neon Hair Cave of Shoplifter, the Artist Behind Iceland’s Immersive Pavilion at This Year’s Venice Biennale Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, better known as Shoplifter, makes art entirely from synthetic hair. By Sarah Cascone, May 9, 2019
On View What Makes Fashion Campy? See the Wild, Strange Looks That Define the Style in Met’s New Costume Institute Exhibition The show focuses on an idea and sensibility that are almost impossible to define. By Caroline Goldstein, May 7, 2019
