Jason Farago
The New York Times
New York, NY, United States
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.
The German mega-show Documenta closes this weekend. Whatever comes next, it will never be what it was before. → Read More
Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House
No longer does museum validation or scholarly attention determine a painting’s value. Now, the collectors’ hunger comes first, and institutions must follow. → Read More
A Messy Table, a Map of the World
Dutch still life paintings like this one do more than depict luxurious objects. They narrate history on a global scale. → Read More
New Galleries for Dutch and Flemish Art Complicate Pictures of the Past
New galleries for Dutch and Flemish art in Boston, and the arrival of “Afro-Atlantic Histories” in Houston, will complicate serene pictures of the past. → Read More
A Madonna Who Shows the Beauty in Going Overboard
This Parmigianino painting is strange, unfinished and not to everyone’s liking. But it’s got style. → Read More
The Impressionist Art of Seeing and Being Seen
It looks like a gentle scene of a seaside vacation. But this painting by Berthe Morisot, perhaps the most underrated Impressionist, is a layered vision of a dawning modern age. → Read More
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty
Crosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal. → Read More
An Art Revolution, Made With Scissors and Glue
The greatest breakthrough of 20th-century art was something you probably did in elementary school. → Read More
The Myth of North America, in One Painting
How Benjamin West remade a bloody battle as a founding romance. → Read More
3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Leilah Babirye’s luminous sculptural figures, Luigi Ghirri’s vintage photographs, and Paul Chan’s Wittgenstein drawings → Read More
A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction
“We Do Not Dream Alone,” the first Asia Society Triennial of contemporary art, is in search of a reason for being. → Read More
Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here
A walk through the artist’s new show offers a master class in how abstraction can capture the fraught spirit of 2020. → Read More
A Countercultural Dreamland From Tokyo Flickers at MoMA
In 1969, Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver created a moving-image environment with 18 projectors. Now his and other expanded cinema works from Japanese pioneers are in New York. → Read More
The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated
An open letter, signed by nearly 100 artists, curators and critics, accuses four museums of “hiding away” from controversy. A long postponement is an admission these institutions are not up to the job. → Read More
Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World
“Philip Guston Now” has become Philip Guston in 2024, after four museums postponed an artist’s show that includes Klan imagery. → Read More
Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait
Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago. → Read More
How the Met Was Made
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens, commemorating its 150-year anniversary with an exhibition that asks: How does this museum give an account of itself today? → Read More
Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom
The D.J. Carl Craig’s basement “club” shows the affinity between minimal art and techno music. It’s an after-party for the Covid age, minus the sweat. → Read More
A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion
What a masterpiece of Japanese printmaking teaches us about the way images circulate. → Read More
Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss
Six critics on the visual album rooted in her “Lion King”-inspired record “The Gift,” a grand statement of African-diaspora pride and creative power. → Read More