Artist Firelei Báez uses fiction to explore the all-too-real legacies of colonial rule in the Americas and the Caribbean. Sunny Leerasanthanah “Art is a tool for navigation, and many times …
Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610) seems to reflect the artist’s troubled and anxious mental state. © Archivio Patrimonio Artistico Intesa Sanpaolo / foto Luciano Pedicini, Napoli Italian artist Michelangelo …
‘Dress Up’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, looks at fashion through many lenses. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Playing dress up is often regarded as …
An installation view of “Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future.” Achim Kukulies It’s a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art—Hilma af Klint and …
Drowning Girl, 1963, Oil and acrylic on canvas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philip Johnson Fund (by exchange) and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright © Estate …
“Sonia Delaunay: Living Art” at the BGC Gallery. © Bruce M. White Much of the work on view in the Sonia Delaunay exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery is …
Eye miniatures from the Nelson-Atkins’ collection. Courtesy Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York …
Eve Ackroyd and her dog Ace at her East London art studio in April 2024. Photo courtesy of TURN Gallery There’s something both matter-of-fact and mysterious about the paintings that …
The Scent of a Man and Scent of a Woman galleries, part of scent artist Sissel Tolaas’ contribution to “Sleeping Beauties.” Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art If I …
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, El Ideal de un Calavera (The Ideal of a Skull), 2012; Graphite, watercolor, and wax on paper; 39 x 27 in. Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch Photo: …