Art & Exhibitions 50 Years Ago, Romare Bearden and His Colleagues Founded a New York Gallery for Artists of Color. A New Show Celebrates Its Legacy The show explores the gallery's ties to the Art Students League of New York. By Sarah Cascone, May 4, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Erotic Collages and Mysterious Hats: How a Whitechapel Gallery Show Is Making Sense of the Surreal Art of Eileen Agar Agar isn’t as well known as some of her peers, partly because her artwork is so tricky to pin down. By Karen Chernick, Apr 29, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Uli Sigg’s Idiosyncratic Collection of North and South Korean Art Is Going on View in a Rare Show in Switzerland The two countries have been divided by a hard border since 1953, but their work hangs side by side in Switzerland. By Kate Brown, Apr 28, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Looking for Art to See While Social Distancing? Here Are 5 Memorable Works at the Latest Edition of Desert X Among the themes artists are addressing in this year's show are mass migration and climate change. By Artnet News, Apr 27, 2021
On View David Hammons’s Homage to Gordon Matta-Clark Began as a Quick Sketch. Now It’ll Be a Monumental Fixture of New York’s Landscape The artwork will welcome people on New York's Hudson River. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 26, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Visiting Yayoi Kusama’s Sprawling New 70-Year Survey Is Like Stepping Inside a Frenzied Tik-Tok Feed… in a Good Way The Japanese artist is having her largest-ever retrospective in Europe at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. By Kate Brown, Apr 23, 2021
On View Sculptor Alex Da Corte Brought a Bright Blue Big Bird to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Rooftop—See Images Here "It's a surrogate for where we are collectively at this moment," the show's curator says. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 23, 2021
On View ‘When You’re Isolated, You Hear More’: Watch Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson Describe How a Frightening Illness Transformed Her Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 22, 2021
On View Olafur Eliasson Just Flooded Switzerland’s Fanciest Museum With Pond Water and Invited Wildlife Inside—See Images Here A breeze now blows through the museum, which is—literally—wide open. By Kate Brown, Apr 22, 2021
Art & Exhibitions After Initially Declining to Participate, David Hammons Unexpectedly Added Never-Before-Seen Works to His Drawing Center Show The artist added six works from his personal collection—including one made this year. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 19, 2021
Art & Exhibitions What If an Artist Were Your History Teacher? A New Photography Exhibition at the Guggenheim Questions How We Depict the Past "Off the Record" is curator Ashley James's first show at the museum. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 19, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Dia Chelsea’s Deft Expansion May Start a New Trend in the World of Museum Renovations: Subtlety After two years of construction, Dia reopened the site this week with an exhibition of new works by artist Lucy Raven. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2021
On View ‘My Work Is an Expression of My Sensuality’: Watch Painter Loie Hollowell Describe How Her Pregnancy Transformed Her Practice As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 15, 2021
On View Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ugo Rondinone, and Other Artists Have Hand-Written Hopes for Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’—See Their Messages Here Ono's "Wish Tree" is being revamped for the age of social distancing. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Artist Sam Durant’s Eerie Modernist Drone Will Hover Over New York as the Next High Line Plinth Commission The 48-foot long sculpture is the same size as a Predator drone. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2021