Exhibitions The Louvre’s Historic Leonardo da Vinci Show Is Finally Here. We Asked the Curators What Surprises Visitors Should Expect Curators Vincent Delieuvin and Louis Frank share what they've learned over the 10 years spent planning the show. By Naomi Rea, Oct 21, 2019
Exhibitions The Private Museum Boom Takes a Dark Turn With the Opening of Musja in Rome, a Cavernous Showcase Themed to ‘Fear’ the Italian collector Ovidio Jacorossi launches his new museum with a trilogy of shows about fear. By Hili Perlson, Oct 21, 2019
Reviews The Lyon Biennale Responds to the Post-Industrial Economy, Only to Get Lost in Post-Human Reveries Held in a recently decommissioned washing machine factory, the event tries to grapple with the future of labor. By Terence Trouillot, Oct 21, 2019
On View ‘We Have to Rethink the Categories’: Curators, Scholars, and Artists Discuss MoMA’s Attempt to Open Up the Art Historical Canon "Museums are like huge ocean liners," says the artist Fred Wilson. "They turn slowly." By Melissa Smith, Oct 18, 2019
On View ‘We Are Art Soldiers’: Watch South African Artist Robin Rhode and His Mural Crew Go to Work on the Streets of Johannesburg As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 17, 2019
On View After 450 Years in Storage, a Female Renaissance Master’s ‘Last Supper’ Is Finally Unveiled in Florence Plautilla Nelli's painting is going on view after a four-year restoration. By Kate Brown, Oct 17, 2019
Exhibitions A New Exhibition Offers a Rare Glimpse Into Reclusive Author JD’s Salinger’s Life—See Highlights Here The 'Catcher in the Rye' author's letters, photos, typewriters, and more will be on view at the New York Public Library. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 17, 2019
Exhibitions ‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the female stars of the art movement that took Victorian Britain by storm. By Javier Pes, Oct 16, 2019
On View ‘I’m Questioning How Much I Believe in It’: Artist Wael Shawky on His Fantastical Remapping of Arab History The artist playfully thumbs at the boundaries between history and storytelling. By Katie White, Oct 15, 2019
On View Leonardo DiCaprio Had an ‘Open Mind’ When He Commissioned Artist Urs Fischer to Make This Very Unusual Portrait of His Family The artist's latest portrait in wax, on view at Gagosian in Paris, shows the actor with his parents. By Nate Freeman, Oct 15, 2019
Exhibitions A New Exhibition of Artworks Recovered From Shipwrecks Reveals Some Fascinating—and Troubling—Histories A show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco does not shy away from big issues. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 15, 2019
On View Tiepolo, the ‘Best Painter in Venice,’ Goes on View in Germany in a Blockbuster Show The major exhibition spans all corners of his creative oeuvre, right down to some peculiar caricature doodles. By Kate Brown, Oct 15, 2019
Exhibitions ‘Only the ‘Important’ People Get to See It, and That’s a Problem’: Turner Prize Nominee Tai Shani on the Inaccessibility of Performance Art Shani says the costs of producing performances can be prohibitive. By Naomi Rea, Oct 14, 2019
Exhibitions A Massive Yayoi Kusama Show—With a New Infinity Room—Is Expected to Flood David Zwirner’s Chelsea Gallery With 100,000 Visitors This Fall Her forthcoming show at David Zwirner in New York is certain to draw long, long lines. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 11, 2019
On View MoMA’s Most Famous Masterpiece Is Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night.’ So Why Does the Painting Now Have a Big Hair Stuck on It? A small glitch is causing an outsize problem for the famed painting. Call it "Hairy Night"? By Nate Freeman, Oct 11, 2019
