Art Review
Painting Was His First Love, But Poetry Got in the Way
An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon.
Review
Art Review
Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests
Women’s bodies are a locus for corrosive stereotypes and ebullient individuality in the artist’s sculpture, painting, fashion, and more.
Art Review
The Visual Artist Who Made Radiohead
An exhibition of Stanley Donwood’s work in collaboration with frontman Thom Yorke charts how the distinctive look and feel of the band’s album covers took shape.
Art Review
The Painter Who Captured the Dark Side of Flowers
Rachel Ruysch's floral abundance is sharpened by an acute awareness of death, decay, and the violence of nature.
Art Review
Ken Gonzales-Day Centers History's Margins
A mid-career survey spans three decades of studying and responding to the absence of gay and Latinx people from historical records.
Art Review
A No Kings Movement for 19th-Century Art
Jean-François Millet was a hero to van Gogh for the way he drew attention to the nobility and heroism of the seldom howling underdog.
Art Review
Kimsooja Offers Refuge in an Anti-Refugee World
The artist’s site-specific exhibition at Amsterdam’s oldest building draws connections between Dutch colonial history and contemporary right-wing attitudes.
Art Review
The Works on Water Triennial Puts Commitment Over Spectacle
The show’s third iteration drifts between deep time, environmental urgency, and immersive aesthetic gestures.
Art Review
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country
The late Anmatyerr artist honored the nonhuman ecologies and ancestral narratives at the heart of Aboriginal life.
Book Review
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds follows a painter whose devotion to a filmmaker keeps her from living her life, even as she gains access to the supposed upper echelons of the art world.
Art Review
What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh?
As a show on the pair at the Royal Academy unwittingly demonstrates, not much.
Film Review
Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame
A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.