Arts

Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.

A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano performers.

The Italian artist speaks with Hyperallergic about his home city of Turin, the loneliness of his characters, and more.   

Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.

While never quite at the forefront of The Permian Recordings, a sense of doom and crisis permeates the space, even if only by geological reference.

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered highlights the need for more research on twentieth-century self-taught American artists, who were marginalized by restrictive art historical narratives.

The Dallas Museum of Art’s retrospective of the artist is an opportunity to reframe the conversation about Wong and his work.

The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.

From a Williamsburg basement to a Bed-Stuy living room and a project space in Gowanus, there’s no shortage of art to discover in the borough.

An exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin offers an alternative view of the nation through the lens of contemporary artists.

Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?

Entering World of Barbie felt like stepping through Oz, but the Oz that is Barbie: a James Turrell Ganzfeld-like diffusion of hyper-femme magenta pink.

His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.

Can anyone truly heal from a traumatic experience?

Coursing through Velvet Terrorism is graphic evidence of how these spirited women have been constantly attacked by the patriarchy.

This week, the National Library of France gets an upgrade, finding the enslavers at the US Capitol, the beauty of MetroCards, headsets that kill, a fed-up librarian, and much more.

What makes Siobhan McBride’s work as a whole interesting is her interest in the ambiguity, suggestibility, and elusiveness of everyday life.

Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery demonstrates the conceptual and technical innovation of contemporary ceramics with riotously joyful art.

Her art demonstrates a grasp of animal nature beyond picturesque figures in a landscape or sentimental stand-ins for human emotion.

The Chinese painter learned the state-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism and then elected to unlearn it in order to reinvent himself.