by October Gallery
The flames at Notre-Dame on Tuesday evening. IAN LANGSDON/EPA-EFE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, one of the world’s finest examples of Gothic architecture, is currently burning in Paris. The cause of…
Jenny Odell. Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California, whose book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy was recently published by Melville House.…
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine,” 2019, at Ballroom Marfa, Texas. ALEX MARKS Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable…
From left to right: Hamza Walker, Kasper König, and Christina Li. COURTESY ART BASEL To celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, Art Basel will commission artists to create “interventions around…
News Egyptian lotus flower inlay, ca. 1353–1336 B.C.COURTESY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Artist Coco Fusco was denied entry to Cuba on her way to visit the Havana Biennial. Art…
The Arsenale at the Venice Biennale. ANDREA AVEZZÙ/COURTESY LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA The Venice Biennale has named the five members of the international jury for awards and recognition during the…
Another version of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by an unknown Renaissance painter in Croatia. ZVONIMIR ATLETIC/SHUTTERSTOCK The Critics Jason Farago reviews the new show at New York’s Japan Society, “Radicalism…
Revelers at the Morgan. LIZ ZITO/COURTESY MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM I know nothing about J. R. R. Tolkien. I’ve never read a page of his many books, which include Lord…
Joan Miró, Hirondelle Amour, 1933–34, oil on canvas. ©2018 SUCCESSIÓ MIRÓ/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS With an exhibition of Joan Miró’s work now on view at the Museum…
Exterior of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. COURTESY SALVADOR DALÍ MUSEUM The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has a $38 million expansion proposal in the…