Art Review
Uncovering the Secrets of Henri Rousseau’s Paintings
A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted revelatory technical studies.
Reviews
Book Review
The Women Who Were More Than Just Picasso’s Loves
Sue Roe explores the agency and victories her subjects experienced as women who, we are repeatedly reminded, ardently loved Picasso.
Film Review
There’s More to Look at Than Learn in 100 Nights of Hero
The film faithfully translates the feminist commentary of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel while deemphasizing its more complex narrative techniques.
Art Review
International Rendezvous at Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial
This year’s biennial, The World Tree, was intended to highlight the “archetypal myth central to many ancient cosmogonies.”
Art Review
Anselm Kiefer’s Rustbelt Romanticism
In Becoming the Sea, nostalgia for the Rhine River of Kiefer’s childhood flows into homages to the Mississippi as a symbol of both industry and creative freedom.
Art Review
Ayoung Kim Is Stargazing in a Digital World
Her exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives
Art Review
Mapping a Feminist Cosmos
Without didacticism, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes visible the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women.
Art Review
Turner and Constable Face Off in London
Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals, or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?
Art Review
John Singer Sargent’s Essence in a Brushstroke
Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling Paris” is a reminder of his uncommonly skillful brushwork.
Art Review
When Isolation Is Your Only Companion
Bill Rice’s depictions of New York’s Lower East Side are paradoxes of bleakness and sensuality, gloom and intrepid spirits.
Art Review
What Hew Locke Carries
With his haunting exhibition, Passages, the Guyanese-British artist reminds us that when we survive, so do our ghosts and our wounds.
Book Review
David Wojnarowicz’s Lessons in the Age of Surveillance
The artist’s photographs of a masked Arthur Rimbaud touring New York offer timely insights about visibility and resistance.