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‘It’s Like Practicing the Piano’: Watch Interdisciplinary Artist Joan Jonas Describe How Drawing Supports Her Other Creative Pursuits

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 27, 2020

Exhibitions

Dresden’s Old Masters Picture Gallery Reopens After a $50 Million Renovation, Looking to Shake Up How We Experience Classical Art

The institution's new look puts its painting masterpieces in direct conversation with a stunning sculpture collection.

By Kate Brown, Feb 27, 2020

Exhibitions

Buildings With Skin and Wearable Digestive Systems: How Neri Oxman Is Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Biology and Design

The MIT professor's new show "Material Ecology" is open now at the Museum of Modern Art.

By Max Lakin, Feb 27, 2020

Exhibitions

The Uffizi’s Entire Scientific Committee Has Resigned in Protest of the Museum’s Decision to Loan a Raphael Masterpiece

The group of scholars and other experts warned that the painting, a portrait of Pope Leo X, wasn't safe to travel.

By Kate Brown, Feb 26, 2020

On View

To Portray America’s Diversity in the Age of Polarization, Shirin Neshat Went to New Mexico to Photograph One of Its Poorest States

The artist, who lives in the US, says she still feels like an American—even in the age of Trump.

By Naomi Rea, Feb 26, 2020

Reviews

The Mexican Muralists Had a Vital Influence on US Art. Can Their Revolutionary Approach Offer Lessons for the Present?

"Vida Americana" at the Whitney tells a tale that should provoke some self-reflection in the present.

By Barbara Calderón, Feb 26, 2020

Exhibitions

Artists From the Arab World Face Countless Hurdles. That’s Why This Organization Is Helping Them Bring New Work to the West

Here are the 6 artists who, thanks to the nonprofit Mophradat, will stage shows at major institutions around the world.

By Kate Brown, Feb 24, 2020

On View

Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum Just Opened a Sprawling Show About the State of American Art Today. Here’s What It Looks Like

Plus, take a first look inside the Momentary, Crystal Bridges's new outpost for cutting-edge contemporary art.

By Ben Davis, Feb 24, 2020

On View

Painter Gladys Nilsson Got Her Start as a Member of Chicago’s Hairy Who. Now, at 79, She’s Ready to Shine on Her Own

Dual New York shows at Matthew Marks and Garth Greenan explore five decades of her wild, ecstatic paintings.

By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 21, 2020

On View

For One Week Only Raphael’s Great Tapestries Have Returned to the Sistine Chapel—See Them Here

The extraordinary exhibition is enough to make a museum director want to "whoop and sing," despite the chapel's rule of silence.

By Kate Brown, Feb 21, 2020

On View

‘I’m a Big Believer in Odd Characters’: Watch Artist Jaimie Warren Talk About Her Love for Freddie Mercury and Yoda

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 20, 2020

Exhibitions

Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten?

A show in Frankfurt features 260 works by 34 female artists who were as subversive as any male Surrealist.

By Kate Brown, Feb 18, 2020

Exhibitions

Kidnappings, Train Crashes, and Vanishing Art: Peripatetic Land Sculptor Richard Long on the Joys of an Artistic Life on the Road

The veteran British artist on his return to Mexico, losing his Venice Biennale sculpture, and why Donald Judd was a "teddy bear."

By Javier Pes, Feb 17, 2020

‘With Access Comes Responsibility’: Watch Painter Jordan Casteel Transform Snapshots Into Indelible Portraits of Her Community

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 13, 2020

‘It’s Like Practicing the Piano’: Watch Interdisciplinary Artist Joan Jonas Describe How Drawing Supports Her Other Creative Pursuits

Dresden’s Old Masters Picture Gallery Reopens After a $50 Million Renovation, Looking to Shake Up How We Experience Classical Art

Buildings With Skin and Wearable Digestive Systems: How Neri Oxman Is Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Biology and Design

The Uffizi’s Entire Scientific Committee Has Resigned in Protest of the Museum’s Decision to Loan a Raphael Masterpiece

To Portray America’s Diversity in the Age of Polarization, Shirin Neshat Went to New Mexico to Photograph One of Its Poorest States

The Mexican Muralists Had a Vital Influence on US Art. Can Their Revolutionary Approach Offer Lessons for the Present?

Artists From the Arab World Face Countless Hurdles. That’s Why This Organization Is Helping Them Bring New Work to the West

Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum Just Opened a Sprawling Show About the State of American Art Today. Here’s What It Looks Like

Painter Gladys Nilsson Got Her Start as a Member of Chicago’s Hairy Who. Now, at 79, She’s Ready to Shine on Her Own

For One Week Only Raphael’s Great Tapestries Have Returned to the Sistine Chapel—See Them Here

‘I’m a Big Believer in Odd Characters’: Watch Artist Jaimie Warren Talk About Her Love for Freddie Mercury and Yoda

Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten?

Kidnappings, Train Crashes, and Vanishing Art: Peripatetic Land Sculptor Richard Long on the Joys of an Artistic Life on the Road

See How Rising-Star Painter Derrick Adams Explores Black Feminine Identity in His First Exhibition at Luxembourg & Dayan

‘With Access Comes Responsibility’: Watch Painter Jordan Casteel Transform Snapshots Into Indelible Portraits of Her Community

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