Delaney Pierce
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Gaetano Ligrani: Where Design, Architecture, and Fine Art Converge
The careers of artists are often shaped by a lifelong dialogue between observation, creativity, and craftsmanship. For Gaetano Ligrani, this…
Mimmo Rotella: The Pioneer Who Turned Urban Posters into Modern Art
Few artists transformed the visual language of post-war art as radically as Mimmo Rotella. By tearing, layering, and reassembling advertising…
The Artist Whose Shimmering Obelisks Are Cropping Up All Over the World
When I learned that Gisela Colón was having a retrospective at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), I leapt at…
The First ‘Gulf Quinquennial’ in the UAE Argues for a ‘Less Is Best’ Approach to Group Shows
How many artists does it take to change the story of the Arabian Peninsula lands comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,…
Rashid Johnson’s Revelatory Guggenheim Survey Lets His Art Remain Complex and Elusive
Targets recur through Rashid Johnson’s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum retrospective, an insightful show that certainly hits the mark. The first can be seen outside…
A Schiaparelli Show Offers a Properly Surrealist Mash Up of Art and Fashion
“See you tomorrow night,” Salvador Dalí wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like…
Amy Sherald’s Portraits Have Injected the Genre with New Life, But They Also Flatten Blackness
In Amy Sherald’s unique visual language, muted yet commanding Black subjects are set against bold color fields. These eye-catching portraits reward…
What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon
I winced when I got a press release for a new Georgia O’Keeffe documentary to be released “around Mother’s Day.”…
From the Archives Utopia Revisited
In our April issue, Vera Koshkina wrote a searching essay about the different ways in which Western museums commemorated the recent centennial of…
Slovakia’s Kunsthalle Bratislava Director Resigns as Culture Ministry Revokes Funding
The director of the Kunsthalle Bratislava resigned on Monday, the institution announced on Instagram. In the same post, Kunsthalle Bratislava shared that the…