Arts

This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere.

This week, a new film on Amílcar Cabral, protecting Odesa’s historical buildings, rumors of the first US bullet train, pranking Google Maps, and much more.

The fact that more than a fifth of Utica’s residents were born outside the US inspires the group show Between Worlds at the Munson Museum. 

Kids and parents were “captivated” by the artist’s visit. Now, his mural for the public school’s library will go on display for the first time.

The problem with a show in Venice on war is the insistence that there had to be a bit of hope too — and the hopeful element of this show is feeble, if not schmalzy.

After decades of work, expectations for women artists to prioritize family — or male peers — remains the prevailing norm rather than the exception. 

“Entering the studio, my ritual is to transform the space by turning on all the lights.”

At the core, all of Watt’s work shows a devotion to care and closeness, a desire to make tangible the layers of relations that bind and make us. 

Chloe Scout Nix and Lena Smart challenge the distorted body images that prevail in mainstream media.

The peoples crushed under British imperialism might not find Hywel Pratley’s tribute to the late monarch and her dogs so endearing.

Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon.

The late artist’s unusual classes and apprentice program continue to inspire a mix of play and discipline in her former students’ practices.

While some of the works lack the finesse of more seasoned veterans, these artists have cultivated firm, incisive critiques of the powers that be.

In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality.

Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable.

Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto.

A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society traces the city’s history through its long-forgotten monuments.

The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.

Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination.

In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.