Exhibitions

“El Greco: Ambition and Defiance”Art Institute of Chicago What the museum says: “Since El Greco’s death, writers, critics, and other observers have struggled with how and where to situate him. Was he a Byzantine icon painter transformed by the artistic revolution of the Italian Renaissance? A social climber desperately seeking noble patronage? A devout believer […] More

“Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat”Museo Jumex, Mexico City What the museum says: “Bo Bardi’s singular contributions to the fields of architecture, design, and museum practice are the subject of this exhibition, which also aims to critically frame Bo Bardi’s process of unlearning, and marking a critical distance from the Western and modernist canon, as a pivotal […] More

“Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstract Variations”Seattle Art Museum What the museum says: “At the heart of the installation is  a recent addition to the Seattle Art Museum’s collection and a gift of late trustee Barney A. Ebsworth. The first complete expression of O’Keeffe’s personal brand of modernism, ‘Abstract Variations’ brings  together with  from the collection of the Whitney Museum of […] More

“Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana”Ford Foundation Gallery What the gallery says: “‘Per(Sister)’ explores one of the most critical issues of inequality and injustice facing our nation today through the lens of a population too often overlooked. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, women’s state prison populations in the United States have grown 834 percent over the […] More

Starting his working life in industrial kitchens, the American artist Allan McCollum has been thinking about large production systems for just about his entire life. When he began a serious art practice, it was inevitable that he would be thinking about the original versus the reproduction, and how value is assigned based on scarcity rather […] More

“Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann”Museum Susch, Switzerland What the museum says: Sabine Breitwieser, who organized the 2015 show of Schneemann’s work that toured institutions from Salzburg to New York City, said of this show: “This exhibition is driven by limits, both in media and society: how they can be overcome, transformed, and transgressed through […] More

“Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition”Phillips Collection, Washington, DC What the museum says: The show “presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th-century European artists with whom they engaged. “European modernist art has been an important, yet complicated influence on black […] More