The Otherworldly Art of Joseph E. Yoakum
At MOMA, an outsider artist is now in.
By Andrea K. Scott
Grownup in the Room
Never Tweet, Unless You're Dionne Warwick
The singer, just shy of her eighty-first birthday, visits a gallery show in Newark, called "Dionne Warwick: Queen of Twitter," dedicated to her digital barbs, and chats about why it's easier to be blunt.
By Bruce Handy
The Art World
Choose Your Own Kandinsky Adventure at the Guggenheim
"Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle" takes the viewer from joy to perplexity—or the reverse—depending on where you start on the museum's ramp.
By Peter Schjeldahl
Rediscovering a Revolutionary Gallery Show of Black Women's Art
An exhibition at Ortuzar Projects pays homage to the "Sapphire Show," which opened on July 4, 1970.
Philip Guston and the Boundaries of Art Culture
The debate surrounding the postponement of a show containing depictions of Klansmen is indicative of a larger cultural crisis.
The Joys of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings
While masterpieces traffic in the inexplicable, drawings speak directly from the artist in pre- or mid-creation, hatching little big bangs of ideas.
The Pictures
Isabelle Huppert's Art of Expression
The French movie star, who plays a French movie star in "Frankie," likes to parse paintings and words with the help of Google Translate.
By Michael Schulman
The Extraordinary Presence of Frida Kahlo
The objects in the exhibit "Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving" reveal a deeper, more intimate story of the artist and her persona.
By Summer Pierre
Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body
Als's latest exhibition is an attempt to give shape to a man who is too often celebrated as a writer-prophet of racial injustice but overlooked as an artist and a human being.
By Coralie Kraft
As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice
Peggy Weil's "88 Cores," a video installation now on view in downtown Manhattan, takes viewers deep into Greenland's ice sheet—and tens of thousands of years back in time.
By Carolyn Kormann