Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...

In her solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 2017, "Tenderheaded", Jennifer Packer established herself as one of the most compelling painters of her generation. The exhibition, a selection of portraits and paintings of funerary bouquets, base...

Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s...

"Legible – Visible" explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time – and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art i...

Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...

Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Lat...

Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this interna...

Not for sale in Poland! This catalog accompanies "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation", the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Ea...

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The Swis...