ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Kaws at the Brooklyn Museum
He is a global brand, but can a museum show lend Brian Donnelly’s art any credibility?
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexander Calder’s early works at MoMA to Molly Greene’s psychedelic flowers at Kapp Kapp
ReviewArt & Technology
A year of viewing art virtually: the best and worst AR and VR work created during the pandemic
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
ReviewExhibitions
Calder-Picasso connections are thin in San Francisco show
The De Young’s current exhibition, comparing the work of the two Modern artists, is not a perfect coupling
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An exhibition at Pioneer Works captures the 'perverse seduction' of nuclear weapons
The artist Smriti Keshari and the writer Eric Schlosser have adapted their acclaimed 2016 film into a blackbox format for the Brooklyn venue
ReviewBooks
A Roman Raphael: how scholars view the Old Master at 500
A survey of books published on the artist's quincentenary shows that attention has shifted to his Roman period and tapestry designs
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Ann Craven at Karma to Madeline Hollander at the Whitney
ReviewAllora and Calzadilla
Allora and Calzadilla create a 'haven' from the horrors of the past year at the Menil Collection
New works informed by the Houston museum founders' literature collection delve into the spiritual and social discomforts of our current time
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Saudi Arabia pushes forward with plans for cultural 'renaissance' with vast light festival full of both local and big-name artists
Agencies seem to be betting that time and increased exposure to the kingdom will wear down Western qualms over its human rights record
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Julie Mehretu’s mid-career survey at the Whitney to the Frick Collection’s temporary encampment in the Breuer building
ReviewThe Insiders
Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison
While the stark presentation of the masterworks creates a revelatory clarity, the exhibition also has a domesticating effect on the Modernist architecture
ReviewArt & Technology
Memories of Myst: Substrata, a new artist-run virtual exhibition, is like entering a magical afterlife
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Niki de Saint Phalle’s first US retrospective at MoMA PS1 to El Museo Del Barrio’s sweeping survey of Latinx art
ReviewVideo, film & new media
Photographs taken by Nazi camp prisoners remind us of the horrors of the Holocaust in new documentary at Berlin Film Festival
The virtual programme also included features on Tsarist Russian fashion and robot love in the Pergamon Museum
ReviewAbstract Expressionism
Jeanne Reynal, a woman Abstract Expressionist who ‘painted in stone’, gets overdue recognition
Her monochrome mosaics using cement, gemstones and sometimes teeth are now on view in New York
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lorraine O’Grady’s first museum retrospective to Carol Bove’s Met façade commission
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The Big Review: Goya's Graphic Imagination at the Met
This urgent and timely show of the Spanish master's works on paper illuminates the artist’s dim view of humanity and his extraordinary imagination
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Guadalupe Maravilla at PPOW to David Goldblatt at Pace
ReviewVideo, film & new media
How To With John Wilson raises the video tutorial to poetic heights
The HBO “docu-comedy” series brings an absurdist view to everyday city life
ReviewBooks
The magical and divine in ancient stones revealed in a game-changing new book
A revolutionary study based on Enlightenment theories explains what coloured marbles meant, from Egypt to the 17th century
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review—Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
An important show reflects a New York collective’s chronicles of Black life amid pervasive discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s
ReviewDesign
A tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the landscape architect who shaped Vancouver’s greenspaces
A joint retrospective organised by the West Vancouver Art Museum and Art Gallery of Alberta beautifully expresses the designer’s passion for nature and understanding of community needs
ReviewArt & Technology
15 minutes of frame time: solve puzzles to bring a (virtual) Met masterpiece into your home
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
ReviewArt in film
Nuns and refugees feature in this year’s art films at a pared-down Sundance Festival
From Rebel Hearts, a documentary on Los Angeles artist and activist Sister Mary Corita, to Flee, and animated tale of a young gay man’s flight from Afghanistan
ReviewArt & Technology
Unreal City, an AR art tour of London, is opened to the world—with some limitations
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
ReviewArt market
'Renegade' Outsider Art Fair opens in multi-venue format in New York
Exhibitions are taking place across several galleries, although some workshops that support artists with disabilities have been unable to take part due to challenges of pandemic
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Gordon Parks at Jack Shainman to Shaun Leonardo at the Bronx Museum
ReviewArt & Technology
Disembodied Behaviors: an ultra-real virtual art show that sears the mind-haze of 2020's unending March back to a state of clarity
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewMedia & broadcast
'My Rembrandt' documentary lets you look into the privileged club of Old Master owners
From kissing a portrait of a woman on the lips, to tricking a co-buyer out of a bargain, acquiring a rare work by the Dutch painter does not always bring out the best in people
ReviewBooks
Master of the putti: instructive book explores Albrecht Dürer's obsession with the little cherubs
Survey including 91 illustrations shows how the artist used the winged gods prolifically in his work
ReviewBooks
Fernand Khnopff and the art of introspection—exhaustive book offers last word on Belgian Symbolist
The outcome of decades of research, this meticulously produced volume gives insight into artist's full oeuvre
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Attribution of a Venus discovered in a French scrapyard is highly contested—this book defends the ascription
This weighty tome looks at the life and work of the Italian sculptor Giambologna but focuses on the contested bronze
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Three winter art walks you can enjoy in England this weekend
From Henry Moore's sculpture garden to five miles of towering works along London's first public art walk
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s rapturous paintings to Brassaï’s Parisian underground
ReviewArt & Technology
A reference point for the art world: the Sol LeWitt estate, Lindsay Aveilhé and Microsoft deliver a richly immersive, interactive app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewBooks
Two books have different takes on the question: just what is Islamic Art?
One title, based on a recent exhibition, and another with an academic bent present divergent interpretations, from the context of workmanship and religion
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Artemisia Gentileschi at the National Gallery to a transgressive show on Tantra
ReviewThe Year in Review 2020
No shows: the biggest cancelled exhibitions of 2020
From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came
ReviewThe Year in Review 2020
The best and worst art world moments in 2020
It was tempting to simply put “everything and everyone” in the bad-year column. But even this most challenging of years was not entirely terrible
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Caroline Coon's hermaphroditic footballers to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's enigmatic portraits
ReviewBooks
Biography of Lucian Freud is heavy on incident, light on insight
The last instalment of this two-part examination of the artist’s life fails to satisfy but supplies valuable first-hand records
ReviewBooks
Three books about Lucian Freud's life and work offer insights that do not always paint a pretty picture
Eccentricity and singled-mindedness were part of the great painter's character, but he had many unappealing traits
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Howardena Pindell at The Shed in New York
This survey of the 77-year-old artist's work lulls the viewer with colourful abstraction before tackling its real subject: racial violence
ReviewThree to see
Three online shows to see this weekend
From a sweeping survey of Kandinsky to a provocative show on the present day experience of Native American communities
ReviewBooks
From picture frames to cloakrooms: what makes a successful museum
A new book by the designer Dinah Casson takes readers behind the scenes
ReviewVirtual and augmented reality
A top-tier way to explore art in the era of social distancing: Eazel, a platform for virtual galleries, presents White Cube Hong Kong's project 'Encounter'
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewThree to see
Three outdoor shows to see in London this weekend
From Chila Kumari Singh Burman's eye-popping Tate Winter Commission to Lucy McKenzie's tube station takeover
ReviewExhibitions
A stitch worth 1,000 words: how America’s First Ladies used their wardrobes to make a statement
The National Portrait Gallery has organised a historic show on the women in the White House
ReviewFilms
Letting it all burn: David Wojnarowicz documentary presents the artist through his words and works
A new film on the provocative artist, who died of Aids in 1992 at the age of 37, tells his story through his paintings, photographs, audio and videos
ReviewThree to see
Three online shows to see this weekend
From a documentary on pioneering queer artist David Wojnarowicz to a survey of Barbara Kruger's pertinent Question installations
ReviewBooks
Divine People: first biography of Ambrose McEvoy reveals how portrait artist became a darling of London and New York society a century ago
The typescript of Eric Chilston's book, based on primary sources and eye-witness accounts, was rediscovered in 2018 after being thought lost for nearly 40 years
ReviewVideo art
As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US politics
Cassandra Zampini's short film Media Warfare compresses four years of fake news into a harrowing 25-minute survey of America's shattered psyche
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a portal to the Utah monolith at David Zwirner to Vivian Springford’s meditative paintings at Almine Rech
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Three outdoor exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From empathetic documentary photography in King's Cross to Cauleen Smith's Covid Diary broadcast at Piccadilly Circus Lights
ReviewExhibitions
The fraught history of voting transparency in the US, explored
A show at the Corning Museum reveals how corruption and intimidation have historically suppressed the votes of non-white, non-male demographics as US presidential election results remain in flux
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Turner’s take on the speed and horrors of the modern world to Ann Veronica Janssen’s playful, light-bending sculptures
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Abigail DeVille's freedom torch at Madison Square Park to new marble sculptures by Sanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky
ReviewArt & Technology
Black Lives Matter murals: Can truly public art exist on private platforms policed by private algorithms?
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Artemisia at the National Gallery in London
The artist’s first major UK exhibition uses dramatic spaces and biographical detail to bring her career into closer focus
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a chilling show on Arctic culture to Polly Morgan's gorgeously repellent serpentine sculptures
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
ReviewBooks
Charting a Life: MacDonald Gill, who designed the inscriptions that form an egalitarian monument to the British and Commonwealth fallen of two world wars
The first biography of ‘Max’ Gill reveals the versatile talent of an artist who was a master of lettering and murals and a standout mapmaker-artist
ReviewResidencies
New York artists find second chance in Governors Island residency programme showcase
The free residencies were part a multi-organisation initiative to replace the annual artist-run Portal art fair and other cultural programming cancelled due to Covid-19
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Liu Xiaodong's portraits of wealthy Chinese immigrants to the Royal Academy's delayed Summer show
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Howardena Pindell's first video work in 25 years at The Shed to a cyclical series of Salome-inspired sculptures by Luke Ivy Price at Ki Smith Gallery
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art
A collaboration between New York and Paris explores the dealer who championed both Neo-Impressionism and home-grown terrorism
ReviewBooks
From how insurance pay outs work to when to get your art appraised: a must have how-to book for collectors
This updated art market manual by Mary Rozell merits a place on any bookshelf
ReviewArt & Technology
Physically sanitised, spiritually liberating: Gazelli Art House’s Enter Through The Headset
A special guest panel offers our first review of an in real life (IRL) virtual reality exhibition, held, with extensive hygiene measures, at a London gallery
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Trenton Doyle Hancock's face-off with Klansmen at James Cohan to Feliciano Centurión's textile paintings at Americas Society
ReviewExhibitions
Sue Coe takes on Donald Trump in final Galerie St Etienne show
The artist’s grotesque and violent images of the US president fit in with her works of political and social protest, made since the 1970s
Reviewelection 2020
Denver exhibition considers the art of the Trump years
The Museum of Contemporary Art show aims to “take stock of the work that has come out of this difficult period”, says curator
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in Berlin this weekend
From Olafur Eliasson's perception-altering lights to Émilie Pitoiset's surveillance capitalism dance marathon
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a performance critiquing surveillance by Krzysztof Wodiczko on Governor's Island to a monumental mural by Jackson Pollock at the newly reopened Guggenheim
ReviewArt & Tech 2020
Kiki Smith, I am a Wanderer is a satisfying digital show organised without a tech team or an app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewBooks
Bryan Robertson: an engrossing book on a brilliant—but forgotten—maverick curator
This is the first publication about the man who put London's Whitechapel Gallery on the international map, but never gained the recognition he deserved
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a tribute to Breonna Taylor at Mitchell Innes & Nash to the Public Art Fund's portals placed through Central Park
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From transgressive Tantra at the British Museum to a series of artistic interventions in Brent's libraries
ReviewExhibitions
Virtual photography show reveals modern Lebanon's many layers of tragedy
Lebanon Then and Now: Photography from 2006 to 2020 hosted by Washington, DC's Middle East Institute is both timely and prescient
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Gauguin and the Impressionists at the Royal Academy of Arts
The London exhibition has many highlights, but viewing this long-planned show is unlike anyone could have envisaged before the coronavirus pandemic
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Jadé Fadojutimi's purposeful paintings at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Trevor Paglen's floral AI animations at Pace
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Brian Clarke's light-filled stained glass at the Museum of Arts and Design to Dan Herschlein's dark horror movie tropes at JTT gallery
ReviewArt & Technology
Cammie Staros evokes environmentally apocalyptic scenarios on the Lux Art Institute app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Danh Vo's millennia-spanning pastoral show at White Cube to Abbas Zahedi's rosewater sprinkler system at South London Gallery
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar's travel sketchbooks at the Morgan Library and Museum to Rivane Neuenschwander's tapestries at Tanya Bonakdar gallery
ReviewBooks
New biography highlights how Philip Guston risked his art-world standing and livelihood
The book by Robert Storr delves into the American painter's dealings with Klansmen and how he wanted “to make paintings you couldn’t count money in front of”
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Raisa Kabir's transcontinental textiles to Toyin Ojih Odutola's epic cycle of queer, Black drawings
ReviewArt & Technology
Zemí Cohoba Stand: an AR experience with exceptional 3D modelling from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Whitney's prelude to David Hammons's Day's End to Sharona Franklin's decomposing work at King's Leap
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series at the Met to Edmund de Waal's library of exiled authors at the British Museum
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Hannah Gadsby: taking down art history's misogyny through comedy
From the High Renaissance to Picasso’s questionable moral compass, the Tasmanian comedian is bringing an exploration of art's patriarchy to a new audience
ReviewBooks
Image and impotency: book reveals the palaces and pictures of some particularly hapless Habsburgs
The Mexican Emperor Maximilian, Crown Prince Rudolf and Archduke Franz Ferdinand all came to sad ends, but amassed vast estates and works of art
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London, New York and online this weekend
From Public Gallery's Spitalfields debut to Keegan Monaghan at James Fuentes
ReviewBooks
Biography of the artist John Nash—victim of the Younger Brother Syndrome—redresses the balance
Book shows that John Nash was a remarkable artist overshadowed by his elder sibling, Paul
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London, New York and online this weekend
From Nicolaes Maes at London's National Gallery to a meditative installation at Rockaway Beach in New York
ReviewArt & Technology
Vortic Collect: a promising virtual reality tool for galleries and a welcome getaway for art collectors
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewBooks
New Orientalists: a thoughtful book on the rise and decline of Western artists in the Middle East
There is plenty to enjoy in this account of a group of travelling painters who were not only accomplished but also determined, brave and hardy
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale
The stimulating show in Rome tells the life story of one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance—but in reverse
ReviewArt & Technology
Untitled, Art Online fair and Artland: vast data collecting capabilities and some great art
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From photographs of a pandemic-and-protest changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York to reflections on domesticity at Soft Opening's new London space