Art Review
Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.”
Reviews
Art Review
Drowning in the Light of Monet’s Venice
Venice turned out to be the ideal environment for the artist to explore the relationship between water and light that long preoccupied him.
Art Review
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Reminds Us of Our Humanity
It feels like an important time to be highlighting moments of intimacy amid strife, given that we live in a time of famine, war, and genocide.
Art Review
Karin Davie’s Oceans of Color
Davie lays everything bare in her brushstroke, while withholding how she controls sometimes two or more colors within a single mark.
Book Review
A Warts-and-All Biography of the Man Behind the Barnes Collection
The Maverick’s Museum examines Albert C. Barnes’s complex legacy, from his support for the Harlem Renaissance to his incongruent interactions with Black art and culture.
Book Review
How the Wound Man Healed Medieval Europe
In a new book, art historian Jack Hartnell reconsiders the gruesome image as “one of the period’s most sophisticated repositories of medical hope.”
Book Review
Unpacking the Ageist Myths of Western Art
Scholar Larry Silver sheds light on depictions of old age in Greek, Biblical, and European art history, but misses a deeper exploration.
Art Review
France Flips the History of Photography Upside Down
Investigating the archive in all its malleable reinvention is at the core of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival, held in historic churches and sites across the city.
Book Review
The Poetry of van Gogh’s Montmartre Years
Miles J. Unger’s new study on the artist is in part a critical biography and in part an impressive and sensitive account of his creation of some key paintings.
Art Review
Giuseppe Penone Captures the Breath of the World
A show takes us inside the practice of an artist who has been meditating on the climate for more than 50 years.
Art Review
Leigh Bowery Was His Own Artwork
In a contemporary society made creatively bland by the homogenizing factor of social media, one yearns again for such an original artist.
Art Review
Dana Awartani’s Gentle Reparation of Gaza
This beautiful and understated show provides a moving foil to the horror of Israel’s war in Palestine.