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...
Oct 15, 2025
If patterns and performance were the only art options in town, there would still be plenty to see this week. You can find the latter, or archives of it, in one of the season’s major art events, MoMA Ps1’s newly opened survey of work by artist, performer, musician, and...
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...
Oct 8, 2025
Abstraction is in good form in art institutions at the moment. The Met’s current retrospective of midcentury Ojibwe artist George Morrison brings out a side of Abstract Expressionism that’s rarely discussed in art histories, and well worth seeing. Though still...
Oct 3, 2025
Befitting the season, this month brings exhibitions that enable the barriers between art and life, and life and death, to fade away. A retrospective of the work of master altarista Ofelia Esparza showcases her iconic altars that helped popularize Día de los Muertos in...
Oct 2, 2025
Halloween isn’t the only thing bringing a chill to the air right now — but we put aside our fears and turn to the abundance of art. There’s much to see in Upstate New York this October: Echoes in Two Tongues at Convey/Er/Or Gallery in Poughkeepsie, for instance,...
Oct 1, 2025
Lorna Simpson, “Ice 8” (2018), ink and acrylic on gessoed wood (photo Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Some of our favorite shows this week allude to communal histories and identities in innovative and beautiful ways. While John Yau looks at Indian-American artist Sangram...
Sep 24, 2025
The home, the psyche, the mortal coil — it’s barely fall and artists are already alluding to the existential territory that encroaches as each year comes to a close. Perhaps introspection is just what we need right now; as AX Mina’s art tarotscope noted last week,...
Sep 22, 2025
As fall approaches Chicago and the temperatures tick upward one last time before the inevitable cold slump, the city enters into a rallying cry. Chicago Exhibition Weekend returns today, with 50 participants hosting concurrent programming across the city through this...
Sep 19, 2025
Autumn, in all its crisp color, has long been a muse for artists and poets — and for good reason. The shorter days and early darkness often cast a spell, encouraging us to spend more time indoors and chip away at our to-be-read piles. These 12 new and forthcoming art...
Sep 18, 2025
After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever further towards authoritarian chaos, but a small flame of resistance...
Sep 18, 2025
After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever further towards authoritarian chaos, but a small flame of resistance...