Jason Farago

Dec 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Holland Cotter |Jason Farago |Walker Mimms

Say what you will about digital futures, print still rules when it comes to art books. And 2024 has brought us a batch of hold-in-your-hand beauties. They include a souvenir document of a highlight show from this year's Venice Biennale; a jumbo compendium of architectural projects never (often for good reason) realized,a bouquet of tributes to a much-loved gallerist and a book-length exit interview with a veteran art critic: page-turners all.

Nov 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Farago

Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.

Nov 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Farago

We call it Egypt; the Greeks called it Aigyptos; but the ancient civilization in the northeast corner of Africa preferred a word with pretty clear roots. Kemet, the name that emerged at the height of the Middle Kingdom, means "the black land," a reference to the nutrient-rich soil along the banks of the Nile. Every year, after the annual flooding, the black earth nourished an empire. The soil was rich in other ways: rich in dreams, rich in fantasies.

Nov 15, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jason Farago

11 hours agoThis past May, Gucci creative director Sabato De Sarno travelled to London to show his debut Cruise collection for the house, populating the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Tanks at Tate Modern with a ‘botanic tapestry’ of over 10,000 plants to backdrop a collection which married an urban uniform with …

Oct 30, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Jason Farago

The haystacks have been raked up, the water lilies are clustered, the ballerinas at the Opéra and the revelers at the Moulin de la Galette have taken their places. This year is the 150th birthday of impressionism, a movement so popular and so familiar that it can seem like some preordained crowd pleaser — all those sunsets and tutus, ready for their blotchy close-ups. But once, those haystacks were rebellious. Once, those ballet dancers delivered a shock.