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Exhibitions

Where art enthusiasts turn to discover what’s worth seeing, and what might just change the way they view the world. A beacon for art lovers seeking sharp, thoughtful critiques of the contemporary and classic, plus in-depth analyses exploring the themes, techniques and cultural significance of each exhibition. A mix of expert opinions and fresh perspectives, highlighting both blockbuster shows and hidden gems. Expect vivid descriptions, insightful commentary, and a keen eye for what makes each exhibition unique. Read more about Arts.

Black-and-white photograph of a Black woman being detained by two uniformed police officers on a city street.

The Nasher’s New Survey Treats Protest as an American Tradition

Highlighting blue-chip practitioners like Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, the Guerrilla Girls and Chuck Close alongside less flashy names like Marielle Plaisir, Robert Colescott and Sam Durant, "Turn the volume up!" asserts that every voice still matters, no matter how insignificant and powerless many currently feel.
By Jordan Riefe
Performer in black underwear sings and points toward a tightly packed outdoor concert crowd as event staff stand between the stage and audience.

Toronto’s Fall Cultural Calendar Foregrounds Ruin, Rebirth and Rupture

Fall programming across the city spans not only TIFF and a biennial but also Melissa Auf der Maur's unfiltered '90s tour photography, a scaled-down survey of Impressionist masterworks and a sound installation built from 600 brass bells.
By Adam Robb
Two older white men, shown as if taking a selfie. The man in the foreground wears glasses and suit. The shorter man in the background is wearing a newsboy hat, round yellow glasses, and smokes a cigarette.

This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

Curated by Bing McGilvray, “Hockney Reproduction(s)” at Manship Artists Residency explores the artist's six-decade engagement with technology and graphic reproduction.
By Christa Terry
Close-up of a gilded ancient Egyptian face with blue-painted eyes and striped headdress.

The de Young’s New Egypt Show Draws From Two of the Past Century’s Biggest Discoveries

By Jordan Riefe
A circular, terraced building with layered horizontal bands and integrated greenery rises against a clear blue sky, viewed from a pedestrian walkway.

MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Is Experientially Compelling But Curatorially Thin

By Elisa Carollo
A man wearing clear-framed glasses and a dark work jacket holding a roughly carved wooden sculptural head in an art-filled studio.

Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

By Elisa Carollo
Yoshitomo Nara’s punk-inspired wall drawing at Niagara shows a cartoon girl shouting, “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”

Yoshitomo Nara’s New York Story Can Be Found in its Punk Clubs

By J. Scott Orr
A visitor sits in a darkened gallery facing five illuminated video screens in John Akomfrah’s The Hour of the Dog at the Menil Collection in Houston.

One Fine Show: “John Akomfrah, The Hour Of The Dog” at the Menil Collection

By Dan Duray
An advertisement for JOB rolling papers featuring a long-haired woman holding a lit smoking cigarette, and its gold zigzag border borrows from Byzantine mosaics.

One Fine Show: “Timeless Mucha, The Magic of Line” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A stylized rural landscape of rolling fields, cultivated farmland, clustered trees and a farmhouse set among green hills.

In Sioux City, Disparate Visions of the American West Converge

By Adam Robb
Woman in a red polka-dot dress standing amid an immersive installation of enormous glossy inflatable forms in red, black, orange and green.

Cj Hendry, Price Laddering and a New Collecting Model for the Kidulting Economy

By Elisa Carollo

Ali Banisadr On Turning the Buffalo AKG’s Wilmers Building Into a World of His Own

By Scott Drevnig
An engraving of muscular naked men locked in battle

One Fine Show: “The Renaissance Engraver at Work” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A blue-toned winter landscape shows snow-covered mountains rising behind a forest and several small wooden cabins beside an icy road.

Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise

By Sarah Moroz
A group of ancient-looking heads and masks sits on and above an ornate white fireplace, including a cardboard mask mounted on the wall.

Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery installation at the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi features a large yellow wall with a mixed-media artwork, bright pink and blue architectural partitions, hanging textile works and patterned flooring beneath a high geometric ceiling.

Shezad Dawood’s “Skin of Dreams” Looks Forward as Well as Back

By Elise Morton

At MCA Chicago, Kenzi Shiokava Gets His Long-Awaited Solo Debut

By Lucas Gómez-Doyle
A museum study-room photograph shows three people gathered around a table examining works on paper, with an older woman and a younger woman leaning over a colorful artwork while a man stands behind them.

“It’s About Time”: At 86, Gladys Nilsson Gets Her First Major Retrospective

By Mána Taylor

Judy Glickman Lauder’s Vast Trove of Photography Is a Portrait of Its Collector

By Sarah Moroz
A large colored-pencil drawing on white paper shows several nude or partially nude human figures intertwined and overlapping diagonally, rendered in bands of pink, blue, yellow, green and orange.

Centro Botín Champions Marisol’s Drawings and Rethinks Her Legacy

By Sarah Moroz
A heavily textured painting uses broken ceramic plates and thick paint to depict the layered green canopy and branching trunks of trees against a pale blue background.

Julian Schnabel On Showcasing the Essentials at Château La Coste

By Sarah Moroz
A historic stone building with green-framed windows and a Greek flag stands beside a road against a landscape of low, dry hills.

On a Remote Corner of Chios, the Art World Finds Room to Think

By Elise Morton
A still from a video of a woman's face in close up with a very dark background behind her

One Fine Show: “Arthur Jafa, The White Album” at the Hammer Museum

By Dan Duray
A man stands behind a suspended red dragon inside a transparent chained box, surrounded by small eye-like drawings on the gallery walls.

Tran Luong Considers Vietnam’s Reality Through an Imagined Underwater World

By Elisa Carollo
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