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.
Review
Book Review
Haroutiun Galentz’s True Colors
A new book traces the function of color as both a mask and a mirror in psychological portraits by the modernist painter, who lost his parents during the Armenian Genocide.
Art Review
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.
Book Review
Why Won’t Britain Return Looted Gold to Ghana?
In “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
The Living World Feels Dead at the Hammer
“Several Eternities” feels overly careful and unable to combust as fully as it could have.
Art Review
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Fragments of Home
His fractured portraits at the National Public Housing Museum reckon with memory, family, and a childhood shaped by Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes.
Art Review
The Lost Pearls of New York City
Alan Michelson's public art installation “The Oyster” on Governors Island conjures up the overlooked history of Indigenous shell middens.
Art Review
The Scent of Ancient Rome in St. Louis
An exhibition makes a case for the sensuality of these marble sculptures, recreating the perfumes and balms that once adorned them.
Book Review
The Fruitless Search for Vermeer’s Personal God
A recent biography spends too much time speculating about the Dutch artist’s religious beliefs and not enough exploring other mysteries, including his possible use of a camera obscura.
Art Review
Ellen Pau’s Elegy to a Vanishing Hong Kong
In the video art pioneer's first US exhibition, water’s changing states become a metaphor for the city.
Film Review
The Thorny Politics of Protest Photography
A new documentary follows the work of activist and photographer Misan Harriman, but risks overly aestheticizing the movements he captures.