Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”

“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian Spore Bush: Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945, currently at Karma. The artist’s first solo exhibition in almost 80 years, it feels extraordinarily modern in...

The Art Crossword: Museum-Lover’s Edition

We love a good museum visit, and we’re guessing you do, too — test your knowledge with this month’s puzzle to kick off fall, with clues on Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda, the Parisian railway station that became an art museum, LA’s storied...

Argentine Couple Placed on House Arrest in Nazi-Looted Art Probe

Giuseppe Ghislandi, “Portrait of a Lady” (image courtesy the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) Authorities in Argentina have reportedly placed the daughter of a former Nazi official and her spouse under house arrest after a painting seized by...

An Insider Artist’s Outsider Alter-Ego

Grayson Perry, “I Know Who I Am” (2024), cotton fabric and embroidery appliqué (© Grayson Perry; courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, all other images Anna Souter/Hyperallergic) LONDON — The Wallace Collection is famous for its trove of Rococo art, such...

André Breton After the Surrealist Manifesto

Cover of Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 (2025) by André Breton, translated by Austin Carder (image courtesy City Lights Books) What does Surrealism, a major art movement in the 20th century, have to do with surrealism, a term often used to describe so...

A Contemporary Art Exhibition in an 18th-Century Home

What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based Haitian-American artist creates mixed-media work that meditates on displacement due...

When One Door Opens, Another Transports Us 

With a collector’s eye with a collagist’s heart, Doors (2022), Swiss-American artist and composer Christian Marclay’s most recent assemblage-style film, splices together clips of doors and the various comings and goings they usher, all plucked from films spanning...