Art Review
James McNeill Whistler’s Music for the Eyes
A long-awaited Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain makes the case that every brushstroke, color, and omission serves the pursuit of harmony.
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Madelon Vriesendorp’s Subconscious Cities
An exhibition explores the creativity and imagination of an artist whose way of seeing influences architects and artists.
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Joel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art
His elaborate tableaux vivants blend elements of mythology, the Bible, and art history to express compassion for the marginalized.
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Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream
A collection of his works on paper at the Drawing Center typifies his frantic and sometimes opaque renderings of thought.
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LA’s Lucas Museum Displays “Narrative Art” for the Few, Not the People
Friction, dissonance, and multiplicity are overall avoided in favor of superficial unity and a flattening of difference at George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's new institution.
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The Belgian Exhibition That Strives to "Decenter" the West
With two contradictory briefs — to both decenter Europe and show Bruges’s centrality in international networks — an exhibition on the Belgian city is already off to a bumpy start.
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Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press Gets an Exhibition of Its Own
They were both writers, and amongst the remarkable fruits of their union was a decision to open a small press, which in time grew into something far from small.
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How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon
In the 1980s, a band of fed-up young men wheat-pasted New York with graphically stark flyers, posters, and stickers, demanding action.
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Miles Greenberg Rehearses Myths for the Future
The artist’s performance videos invoke the wild, inestimable human spirit and make Black people the characters of universal stories.
Venice Biennale
National Pavilions We Loved at the Venice Biennale
As the punishing heat waves of this summer taper off, this might be the perfect time to visit the international exhibition.
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Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial
The inaugural edition of the sprawling yet rigorous exhibition examines the labor, regulation, extraction, and repair of our shared systems.
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RISD MFA Students Paint Through the Heartbreak
Each painting is like an island awash with yearning, sending out a lighthouse signal into a fractured world.