Arts

Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts reminds us that nothing will stop people from acting foolish except themselves. 

Live glass-blowing, artist-made doll houses, robots in love, and a show of “rejects” were among the highlights of the neighborhood’s open studios event this year.

Her new body of work invites us to experience art as nothing short of rapturous, a portal to another dimension.

The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.

“The longer I paint, the more I realize what I don’t know or cannot do. Simply exploring the material could keep a person busy forever.”

Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.

To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.

In many ways, Autobiography, a small Rauschenberg exhibition in Santa Barbara, is self-explanatory, and this is its great strength.

Braxton Garneau was inspired by Trinidad’s long tradition of carnival costumes that exude acerbic sartorial wit as social critique. 

As our Freaknik celebrations of the 1980s and ’90s showed, if there’s one thing this city knows how to do well, it’s how to throw a party.

The experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts.

One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.

The annual event celebrated its 18th edition this weekend, with artists in good spirits despite rain and a subway line that didn’t run into Manhattan. 

Kristen Wells’s absurdist cardboard worlds, Susan Wides’s ecological abstractions, Alannah Farrell’s loaded tableaux, and more.

Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.

A refreshing retrospective demonstrates that, far from being overshadowed by The Americans, Frank was only getting started with it.

After suffering a nervous breakdown, the late Chicago artist began to make his surreal graphite and colored pencil portraits on found paper.

Usher in autumn with Leasho Johnson’s aqueous abstraction, iconic Windy City protest art, John Akomfrah’s elegy for the environment, stunning works on paper by Haegue Yang, and more.

The city’s teeming with creative offerings, from the new Atlanta Art Fair and a Jeffrey Gibson show to Ming Smith’s first major museum survey and José Ibarra Rizo’s tender photography.

In his paintings, Joshua Hagler seems to follow a path where logic and convention are left behind in favor of visions and dreams.