Louvre Museum Closed After Dramatic Daylight Heist

Oct 20, 2025

Armed thieves stole “priceless” jewelry from a gallery in the Louvre Museum in Paris in broad daylight on Sunday, October 19. Laurent Nuñez, France’s interior minister, told France Inter that burglars broke into the Galerie d’Apollon around 9:30am, half an hour...

In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa

Oct 18, 2025

I’ve been thinking about Ruth Asawa’s shadows. They’re surprising, not shaped how you might expect: While one of her sinuous hanging basket sculptures might be elongated, with an oblong head and abdominal segments, for instance, its shadow might have a round belly and...

The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck

Oct 17, 2025

“This is not a show of ‘Surrealism’ proper, with a capital ‘S,’” Whitney Museum Director Scott Rothkopf said during the press preview for Sixties Surreal. “It’s a show about the surreal ways of picturing a world that had itself become surreal.” As Rothkopf flicked...

Five DC Exhibitions You Can See Despite the Government Shutdown

Oct 17, 2025

Water With Water, “Save me from What?” (2019), digital prints of silk bomber jacket with neon embroidery, part of the exhibition Arab Pop Art: Between East and West at the Middle East Institute (image courtesy the artists) Amid a federal shutdown, an...

Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing 

Oct 16, 2025

An AR juxtaposition of Cannupa Hanska Luger, “Midéegaadi: Fire” (2021–) over Thomas Cole’s “View on the Catskills – Early Autumn” (1836–37) (all images courtesy Amplifier) Imagine traversing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing — the 75 galleries, the grand...

The Propaganda Dilemma 

Oct 15, 2025

A dilemma is at the center of Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York. But first some background: The exhibition is based on and inspired by a series of infographics devised by W. E. B. Du Bois about the state of daily...

10 Exhibitions to See in Paris This Fall 

Oct 14, 2025

There is a distinctly patriotic flavor to Paris’s tentpole shows this fall. The Louvre is mounting what may be the most significant Jacques-Louis David exhibition in living memory, while the Petit Palais is doing his Napoleonic era contemporary Jean-Baptiste...

For Duane Linklater, It’s a Buffalo’s World

Oct 13, 2025

In a conversation with Duane Linklater published in the brochure for his current exhibition, 12 + 2, at Dia Chelsea, filmmaker and scholar Tasha Hubbard (Peepeekisis First Nation) distills the intertwined erasures effected under colonialism in North America. Over the...

People Really Hate the Philadelphia Art Museum Rebrand

Oct 11, 2025

Say goodbye to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and hello to … hold onto your hats … the Philadelphia Art Museum! *crickets* On Wednesday, October 8, the historic arts institution announced a major overhaul of its brand, including a new logo with a serif typeface and a...

Vaginal Davis Is Queercore’s Fairy Godmother

Oct 10, 2025

The showstopper in Vaginal Davis’s new exhibition, Magnificent Product, at MoMA PS1 is a large phallus tucked into a rotating bed, titled “The Wicked Pavilion: Tween Bedroom” (2021). This massive recreation of the multidisciplinary artist’s preteen bedroom winks...

The Slow, Easy Splendor of Peter Hujar’s Day

Oct 9, 2025

One early winter Thursday in 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz recorded photographer Peter Hujar as he recounted his activities over a 24-hour period. What was meant to spark a larger creative project never came to fruition, but finds new life some 50 years later in...

George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism 

Oct 8, 2025

The landmark exhibition The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art expands common notions of who were the major figures in Abstract Expressionism. In Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), it also introduces the...