A selective guide to art and visual culture around the world.
Curator's Highlights
A house built to be haunted by objects
The architect kept everything, and an Act of Parliament made sure nothing would ever move.
Marseille, the Surrealists' waiting room
In 1940–41, the Surrealists waited here for visas to escape the war, and left behind a deck of cards.
Five painted rooms still doing their job
A station buffet, a naval dining hall, an office courtyard, a parish chapel and a confraternity's meeting room.
The Mäusebunker: Berlin's beautiful monster
A laboratory for animals that looks like a battleship, and the people who refused to let it be torn down.
Now · November · Worth the trip
New York & Los Angeles
- → Roy Lichtenstein: Like New Exhibition
- → Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living Exhibition
- → Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu of Encounters, The Dream of Water Exhibition
- → Julian Charrière: Deep End Exhibition
London
- → Van Eyck: The Portraits Exhibition
- → Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Exhibition
- → Nan Goldin, You Never Did Anything Wrong Exhibition
- → The 90s: Art and Fashion Exhibition
Paris
- → Mary Cassatt, The Choice of Independence Exhibition
- → Kerry James Marshall, The Histories Exhibition
Mexico City
- → Tamayo, Nieto, Toledo: The Paris Years Exhibition
- → Richard Prince: Tell Me Everything Exhibition
Tokyo
- → Mariko Mori: All That Shines Exhibition
- → Mari Katayama Exhibition
- → The Birth of Chinese Imports (Karamono) Exhibition
Off-Piste
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson's 1,500-foot coil of black basalt and earth, built into the Great Salt Lake in 1970. Depending on the water, it is submerged, crusted with white salt, or ringed with pink.
Marfa
A small town in the Texas desert where Donald Judd installed his work permanently, at the Chinati Foundation.
Las Pozas
Edward James, the English poet and patron of the Surrealists, spent his last decades building concrete columns, stairways to nowhere and flower-shaped towers in the jungle around his orchid garden.