Art Criticism Forget Blue-Chip Art. It’s a ‘Red-Chip’ Art World Now Artists and collectors once dismissed as tacky have been gaining power. They may hold the key's to the art industry's future. By Annie Armstrong, 20 hours ago
Art Criticism People Are Getting Anne Imhof’s ‘DOOM’ All Wrong There's a lot to love and a lot to think about in the German artist's weird and wooly spectacle. By Ben Davis, 2 days ago
Art Criticism Here’s What Makes Caspar David Friedrich’s Edgy Landscapes So Special Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. By Ben Davis, Mar 2, 2025
Art Criticism Three Essential Korean Painters Have Shows in New York Right Now. Run, Don’t Walk Park Seo-Bo, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Hyun-Sook Song are on hand By Andrew Russeth, Dec 20, 2024
Art Criticism American Titan Bruce Nauman Burns Bright in a Poignant New Show Artist-poet William Blake makes an appearance in the exhibition's centerpiece work. By Brian Boucher, Dec 19, 2024
Art Criticism What I’m Looking At: A Bawdy Zodiac, Vaping Frogs, and Deceptive Patterns Picks from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Nov 20, 2024
Art Criticism ‘Spirit Keepers’ Showcases Three Black Artists’ Vivid Invocations to Other Realms The uplifting and complex "Spirit Keepers" is now on view at New York's Eric Firestone Gallery. The trio of artists use color and form to reach for a higher power. By Petala Ironcloud, Nov 19, 2024
Art Criticism I Ventured to Michael Heizer’s Remote Land Art Masterwork—And Left Transformed The pioneering land artist and renegade visionary turned 80 this week. We celebrated by visiting his desert masterpiece 'City' and will never be the same. By William Van Meter, Nov 6, 2024
Art Criticism There Has Never Been a Tom Wesselmann Show Like This The Fondation Louis Vuitton's Tom Wesselmann exhibition rewrites the Pop Art narrative and proves that the world is ready for the gargantuan vision of one of the movement's forebears. By Kate Brown, Nov 3, 2024
Art Criticism Why Only Some Artworks Give You Chills—And Most Just Don’t 'Aesthetic Chills,' Part 2 of a 2-part series. By Ben Davis, Oct 28, 2024
Art Criticism Unlocking the Secrets of Art That Gives You Chills 'Aesthetic Chills,' Part 1 of a 2-part series. By Ben Davis, Oct 25, 2024
Art Criticism I Could Spend a Million Hours in the Met’s Weird and Wonderful Sienese Art Show "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” is more than just a pre-history of the Italian Renaissance. By Ben Davis, Oct 9, 2024
Art Criticism A Neo-Rococo Movement Is On the Rise—But What Does It All Mean? This sumptuous style, which is being revived by a growing cohort of artists, is like a cornucopia for complex meanings. By Katie White, Aug 16, 2024
Art Criticism Performance Optimisation: Are Algorithms Changing Performance Art? On social media, fragments and edits build a stripped down idea of what is trending in performance art. By Kate Brown, Jun 17, 2024
Art Criticism ‘Foreigners Everywhere,’ Unpacked: On the ‘Brazilianization’ of the Art World Part 3 of a 3-part essay on the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. By Ben Davis, May 31, 2024