Reviews ‘A Plaything for Rich People and Fancy Museums’? Reevaluating Impressionism at 150 A number of exhibitions find new ways to look at this much-studied movement. By Devorah Lauter, May 10, 2024
Reviews From Raucous to Revelatory: The Unflinching Eye of Frans Hals A Rijksmuseum retrospective proves the Dutch Golden Age painter captured the scope of 17th century Amsterdam, from its nocturnal joys to its harsh realties. By Andrew Russeth, Mar 31, 2024
Reviews The Whitney Biennial Can’t Go on Like This Forever "Even Better Than the Real Thing" feels steeped in a larger climate of retreat and exhaustion. By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2024
Reviews The Endless Encore: A Sprawling 14-Hour Documentary Captures Documenta’s Twilight Era 'Exergue' reads as both swan song for the entire machinery behind the global mega exhibition and a testament to the art world’s capacity for eternal return. By Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Mar 26, 2024
Reviews These Were the Highlights of the 4th Lagos Biennial Thrust into uncertainty, artists and collectives lead the charge in re-inspiring hope. By Tobi Onabolu, Mar 23, 2024
Reviews Yoko Ono’s Powerful Protest Art Has Taken Over the Tate. How Does It Meet With Our Present Moment? The career-spanning exhibition shows how Ono was much more than headline fodder or her famous husband's collaborator. By Matthew Holman, Feb 22, 2024
Reviews Harmony Korine’s L.A. Debut of His New Film ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Was an Odd and Artistic Spectacle At a Hollywood club, the filmmaker and artist found the ideal context for his polarizing Florida Noir film. By Janelle Zara, Feb 13, 2024
Reviews How Do You Tell Photography’s History? ICP’s Big Birthday Show Embodies the Struggle "ICP at 50" shows how radically photographic practice has expanded—and the challenges that expansion has caused. By Ben Davis, Feb 4, 2024
Reviews How an Intergenerational Cohort of Artists at an Icelandic Biennial Grappled with Notions of Darkness The 11th edition of the Reykjavik art festival included artists Agnes Denes and Precious Okoyomon. By Elizabeth Fullerton, Oct 30, 2023
Reviews The Turner Prize Exhibition Promises to Tell Us Something About the Art of Our Time. In 2023, It’s Complicated Each of the installations deals with a different aspect of contemporary society, but Jesse Darling's work was the clear standout. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 28, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking at: Michael Rakowitz Makes a Meta-Monument, the Debate Over ‘Art Without Men,’ and Other Things at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries and the art magazines from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Sep 22, 2023
Reviews The 1930s Have Been Viewed as a Time of Simple-Minded Art. ‘Art for the Millions’ Shows Just How Dazzlingly Complex It Was The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition shows that meaning of this time period for art was in debate, even as it happened. By Ben Davis, Sep 18, 2023
Reviews The Nasher Museum’s New Art Show Was Curated by ChatGPT. We Asked ChatGPT to Review It The show embraces the playfulness of its conceit but A.I. anxieties still poke through. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 18, 2023
Reviews A Major Isa Genzken Retrospective in Berlin Brings a Rare Clarity to What Makes Her Ingenious, Risk-Taking Art So Vital "Isa Genzken: 75/75" is on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti. By Kate Brown, Aug 23, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking at: Odd Apparitions at White Columns, Google’s Art Market Hallucination, and Other Things at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Aug 10, 2023
