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6 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
PARIS — Long lionized as the first breakthrough painter of the early Renaissance, Cimabue has rarely been the subject of monographic exhibitions. With only 12 works securely attributed to him currently, many of which are too fragile to travel, a full retrospective remains a logistical impossibility. For this reason, A New Look at Cimabue at the Louvre offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to see numerous works by this legendary artist in a single room.
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6 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
Posted inArt Review The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
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1 week ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
In the second part of Pratt College’s MFA Fine Arts Thesis exhibition at its new Brooklyn Navy Yard satellite space, Mouet surprises viewers with a warped canvas. The plywood and poplar structure can be flexible, but also hold this unorthodox shape, subverting the convention of the flat canvas, as well as mirroring the distortedness of our current media, political, and economic climate.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
Joshua Evans’s “Fantasia” (2024) sums up how many of us are feeling right now. The figure is mid-metamorphosis — but doesn’t appear to have much of a choice or to be enjoying it that much. Despite his lack of fully-formed feet, and the uncertainty and gloom surrounding him, the figure trudges the path ahead. “He is trying to negotiate who he is going to be… but it’s not entirely clear yet,” Evans explained to Hyperallergic.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Julia Curl |Daniel Larkin |Julie Schneider
From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday clothes, an exhibition that proposes different ways of looking at color is well worth a visit, as is one that brings together conceptual works by four longtime collaborators. And who can resist John Singer Sargent’s bewitching portrait “Madame X,” on view in The Met’s newly opened Sargent and Paris?
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave intact pale, male, and stale color theories of the past as the default. A gem of a group show, All That Remains at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, spotlights artists who subvert modernist orthodoxies and open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.
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4 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
There is an undeniable heaviness to 2025. In her video work “What is Burden” (2025), artist Hannah Bang explores this weight. Projected onto the final drawing, the four-hour piece captures the performer in the process of making it, continuing even as the paper gradually tears, playing with ideas of temporality and flux. How can art help us navigate the difficult changes of 2025? In Re:Turning, the Parsons Fine Arts MFA show curated by P! Krishnamurthy, students like Bang try their hand.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s breathtaking mix of blood and gold at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is long overdue. Works like Simone Martini’s “Christ on the Cross” (1340) simultaneously glow and ooze in a dramatic contrast.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |AX Mina |Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Daniel Larkin
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us MONTREAL — The fool takes center stage in a Flemish painting show now on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Although the English title, Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools, leads with saints, it’s the folly that seems most timely.
