Jonathon Keats

Now on view at the Getty, two extraordinary 14th century illuminated manuscripts show how the world got so messed up – and what we can do about it.

The Centre Pompidou hosts one of the true pioneers in art-and-technology – whose ideas are even more pertinent today.

The Walker Art Center presents the extraordinary work of under-recognized artists living behind the Iron Curtain from the 1960s to the ’80s.

Famous for high-concept cooking, the notorious Thai artist restages some of his most famous meals at a New York retrospective that questions the future of food.

At the Fondazione Prada in Milan, researcher-artists Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler have mapped out 500 years of technological innovation and coercion.

Featuring Nancy Holt, Ana Mendieta, and more, a Nasher Sculpture Center exhibit provides a refreshing new view on women, land art and the origins of environmental art.

The secrets of success in Medieval Europe are on full view at the Morgan Library & Museum. They might just teach us something valuable today.

Forget about tie-die and mandalas. An eye-opening exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan shows the surprising second coming of a venerable book-binding tradition.

In the 1970s, Komar and Melamid painted themselves as Lenin and Stalin. Within a decade, the Soviet expats were buying and selling souls in Manhattan. See how they weaponized absurdism – and made art history – at the Zimmerli Art Museum.

CDC statistics show a racial ‘sleep gap’ endangering the health and wellbeing of people of color. At the Museum of Modern Art, the Afro-Latinx artists Navild Acosta and Sosa have created a space for rest that prompts reflection on systemic racism.

At Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels, well-known work by legendary outsider artists such as Adolf Wölfli and Henry Darger is exhibited alongside remarkable new photographs by a Japanese retiree named Ichiwo Sugino. Insiders will be envious.

At Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels, well-known work by legendary outsider artists such as Adolf Wölfli and Henry Darger is exhibited alongside remarkable new photographs by a Japanese retiree named Ichiwo Sugino. Insiders will be envious.

From the serially reworked Colossus of Constantine to a papal throne made out of an ancient Roman latrine, the Fondazione Prada shows the ever-evolving uses and meanings of antiquities.

Every year, this column offers commentary on dozens of museum shows globally. Though some are best forgotten, others continue to stimulate and inspire long after works have been boxed and shipped off. As the year comes to a close, here are eight 2022 exhibits that still resonate.

From the collapse of FTX to global economic instability, it’s time to reevaluate money. Two alluring numismatic exhibits at the National Museum of American History – one designed for children – are a perfect place to begin.

Forever identified with “The Lightning Field” in remote New Mexico, Walter De Maria is not sufficiently appreciated for his small-scale gallery works and ephemeral pieces. A new exhibit at the Menil Collection in Houston provides an invigorating corrective.

From deepfake photo-manipulation to spurious annotation, a new exhibition at UC Riverside’s California Museum of Photography will open your eyes to the trickery that is muddling social media and polarizing America.

Through a remarkable series of fashion shows and shoots in the 1960s and ’70s, Kwame Brathwaite fostered appreciation for natural hair and clothing from Africa. A New-York Historical Society show celebrates his work and his impact.

From Medieval tomes with brass fittings to mass-market paperbacks repackaging classics as potboilers, books speak volumes as historical artifacts. The Grolier Club in New York is displaying some of the most eloquent examples from the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School.

A remarkable new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition reveals the visual and conceptual connections between 20th century Cubism and Baroque trompe l’oeil.