Barry Schwabsky

At one of the oldest biennials on the planet, a glimpse of a more global idea of art history is on view. 

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The impact of her pioneering photography and her advocacy on behalf of those harmed by Purdue Pharma is chronicled in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

The craze for figurative painting might be at an impasse. These three painters stand above the pack, making work that challenges the very idea of the form.

At a time when art criticism was becoming more and more scholastic in tone, Peter Schjeldahl proudly upheld the banner of belletristic criticism.

At a time when art criticism was becoming more and more scholastic in tone, Peter Schjeldahl proudly upheld the banner of belletristic criticism.

An exhibition of drawings by a forgotten Bay Area artist is a feat of curating, reminding us that museums can a still shine a light on remarkable work.

An exhibition of drawings by a forgotten Bay Area artist is a feat of curating, reminding us that museums can a still shine a light on remarkable work.

Using the street as his studio, he did more than just freeze a time and place in one frame. His photographs captured the world in motion.

One of photography’s secret powers is to turn time inside out. It takes a constellation of happenings that occupied a fraction of a second and makes it available to attention over a long span of time. And yet the picture always collapses back into instantaneity. This is something that William Klein…

A delayed, divisive, and long-awaited retrospective finally debuts in Boston.

But it sure does make a poor first impression.

On Joseph E. Yoakum and Etel Adnan.

As institutions around the world deal with various challenges—politically and economically—it is worth asking if museums have lost their authority.

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