Art Review
The Asian Modernists of Paris
Across more than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age.
Reviews
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Helina Metaferia Takes Back the Museum
The Ethiopian-American artist creates her own artifacts to highlight a lineage of Black female activism.
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A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams
Along with his studio art, Williams has long worked with the Chicago Public Art Group and his collaborative handiwork can be found throughout the city.
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José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico
He celebrated the physical entity of Mexico in its exactness, rather than appealing to ingrained nationalistic European sensibilities of history painting.
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The Visual Language of the Nuclear Age
Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
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For EJ Hill, Art Is an Act of Faith
Without irony, Hill draws on his Catholic upbringing in his current solo exhibition to cultivate a secular spirituality and a space for hope.
Film Review
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
Art Review
Take a Trip Down the Catwalk With Andy Warhol
With fashion-themed art from the 1950s and ’60s, Andy Warhol: Fashion feels like a private, over-the-shoulder glimpse of Warhol at work.
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Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
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Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
The artist mines archives of conquest and imperialism in her native Turkey to produce multifaceted displays that entangle violent histories with personal narratives.
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How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World
At the Brooklyn Public Library, an exhibition on queer Finnish artist Tove Jansson's beloved characters reminds visitors of all ages that justice and joy are within our grasp.
Art Review
The Berlin Biennale's Complicit Silence
It fails to directly address the German state’s repression of pro-Palestine expression, even as many of its works model “safer” forms of resistance.