Your Concise Guide to Miami Art Week

From art fairs to alternative spaces that may not be on your radar, here’s a run-down of what to see (and eat and sip) in Miami. No NFTs, we promise.

Adrian Ghenie and the Soup of Fame

Ghenie’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.

The Art World’s Catholic Problem

What feels like the right way to write about Roman Catholicism, or Christian iconography, to most art critics is heavily influenced by museum discourse, which is far from neutral.

The Tropical Is Political

A group exhibition at the Americas Society investigates ideas of paradise, approaching the Caribbean region as a product of the visitor economy regime.

Required Reading

This week, arts orgs and the war for talent, importance of house museums, the 125 most borrowed books in Brooklyn, the history of listicles, and more.

Whose Mother Is Nature Anyway?

Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted?

James Siena’s Radical Abstraction

The pleasure of Siena’s art arises from the tension between the overall image or the changing visual field and the individual units.