It's a sight that no one who attended the 1993 Whitney Biennial is likely to forget, one that came to stand for the Biennial itself, with its provocative emphasis on politics: ordinary people of all…
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis at the
The colors of Byron Kim's new paintings appeared timely when I first saw them, on a gloomy day in November 2016, not long after the US presidential election.
Below, in honor of Glenn Ligon’s show at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick space, which opens today, is Hilarie M. Sheets’s profile of Ligon from ARTnews‘s April 2011 issue. (A second show of Ligon’s…
There was a time when the labels and texts in museum shows were matter-of-fact explanations—the artist, title, date, medium, and then a few informative words from the curator. But as exhibitions…
Radical chic for $19.90 and up: the Daniel Joseph Martinez line
For his newest book, Bruce Altshuler selects the 25 most influential art shows from the last 40 years