Our fleeting encounters with strangers—in magazines, on the streets—leave a mark decades later.

One of the best reasons to visit this year’s Whitney Biennial is Isaac Julien’s immersive multiscreen video installation, Once Again. . . (Statues Never Die), 2022, that also includes vitrines with Harlem Renaissance-era sculptures by Richmond Barthé, African sculptures, and contemporary works by Matthew Angelo Harrison. Julien interweaves historical footage and new images in the […]

ANSELM (2023) directed by Wim Wenders   Wim Wenders’s visually stunning and conceptually problematic film Anselm is perhaps not aimed toward an audience for whom Anselm Kiefer is a household name. Ostensibly a documentary about the formidable and influential German artist, the film is unapologetically engaged in the business of mythmaking. During the course of […]

One features a whale sinking a ship; there are two portraits of Batman.

Duong solidifies her own sense of identity by rendering her body with abandon and desire.

A prominent motif in the paintings are nocturnal snowfalls—allover compositions on canvas with slick surfaces made of countless layers of oil pigment.

Manet, though older by only two years, is positioned as the wiser, more formidable painter.

I. Between visiting the five-thousand-year-old pyramids of Giza and heading south to the Valley of the Kings, where four thousand years ago ancient Egyptians began to cut tombs for their pharaohs, I toured Zamalek, a Manhattan-shaped island in the Nile River near Cairo. Thrumming with international students and filled with posh cafes, Zamalek is also […]

Below is a selection of some of the most memorable New York City art exhibitions of the season. The list contains museum as well as gallery shows, most of which are currently on view, and not to be missed. 1.) Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, through June 5.   This […]

Helen Pashgian’s immersive retrospective at SITE Santa Fe brings the viewer into a semantic space that toggles with the space of pure perception. The viewer sees and then begins to think and question: What is one looking at? Where does the object begin in a controlled environment and where does it end? What is meant […]