More Than Half
For the first time the Whitney Biennial’s curators have included a majority of female artists in their survey. 84-year-old Chicago artist Diane Simpson is one of them, with a room of her own.
The Art World's a Stage
Leonor Fini’s first U.S. retrospective is being staged at an unexpected venue: the Museum of Sex. This is no coincidence, as sometimes it is an outsider’s voice that makes us pay attention to what matters most.
Maiden, Mother, Crone
Hilma af Klint channeled her artistic impulse from a higher realm. Contemporary critics seem to look down on her spiritualism. less than half thinks this is a mistake.
Small Voices
In her retrospective “Other Situations” at el Museo del Barrio, Liliana Porter says a whole lot with very modest tools: mostly plastic figurines, tchotkes, collectible porcelain, and a whole lot of wit.
Santa Maria Llena de Gracia
Latin American women artists are given their due in this highly successful, ambitious, chilling, and, above all, emotionally powerful survey at the Brooklyn Museum.
Required Reading
Reigning monarch of Brazilian Modernism Tarsila do Amaral arrives at MoMA to much fanfare. But does the Museum do her justice? less than half sees what the hype is all about.
Soul Sisters
Maria Lassnig returns to New York in a series of films and animated works, both serious and amusing.
*, a museological study
Toyin Ojih Odutola's To Wander Determined at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Helen Johnson's Ends at the New Museum in New York City
Laura Owens is not an -ism
Laura Owens Mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Unmasking Sikán
Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayon's retrospective at el Museo del Barrio in Manhattan
Talking Politics at the Dinner Table
A new look at the iconic feminist work the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago at the Brooklyn Museum
The Bourgeois Century
Louise Bourgeois, an Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of Modern Art presents the artist's seemingly endless oeuvre