Clarity: what does a word like that mean today? There are plenty of interpretations that range from the literal to the psychological to the environmental. Abstraction (which rarely deals in clarity) oddly seems to provide one answer when in the … Continued

The New Museum Triennial is only in its fourth iteration, but is already as famous as any large scale art fair or biennial. There is good reason for its notoriety: the New Museum gives emerging artists and curators nearly total … Continued

Kiki Smith has been a major figure in the art world for several decades, but her career has been relatively subdued outside of America. However, Munich’s Haus der Kunst is looking to change this with a major survey of Smith’s … Continued

Cuba has become a place of increasing interest, especially within the art world. With somewhat relaxed dynamics between the United States and the tropical nation, institutions are finally giving credit to the incredible work that was produced by Cubans since … Continued

The dialogue between architecture and fine art is nothing new. Russian artists were exploring that realm over a century ago, yet it still remains fertile ground and a point of interest for artists. Think of El Lissitzky’s spiritual planes of … Continued

Many artists have gained their reputation through developing a recognizable set of stylistic or conceptual cues. Laura Owens happens to have taken the opposite approach. Since the 1990s, when painting was then considered a dead end, Owens took up the … Continued