Sometimes it can be hard to hear what Frida Escobedo is saying. She is reserved, restrained, a self-described introvert. But that quiet aura should not be mistaken for timidity or deference. Despite the weight of being the first woman to design a wing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 154-year …
Leigh Bowery Tate Modern, London Note the exclamation mark in the title: “Leigh Bowery!” at Tate Modern (Feb. 27 through Aug. 31) is the first large-scale exhibition to present the multidisciplinary output that was the work and too-short-life of the boy from suburban Sunshine, Australia, who out-weirded the colorful 1980s …
Jim Poniewozik Everybody Back to Work at Lumon Industries The dystopian thriller “Severance” premiered in 2022, telling the story of an alternative reality in which workers can have their brains surgically “severed” into two consciousnesses, one for work hours, one for off-work hours. Nothing has matched it since — including …
We are looking at a man who stands on his own, arms hanging by his side, chest puffed out, face untroubled. He is an ideal, a model; he ought to be a hero. But just above his knees his legs give out, thawing into a formless muck — the result, …
‘Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment’ Through Jan. 19 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 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 …
Yoshio Taniguchi, a Japanese architect who gained international fame in 1997 when he was chosen to renovate and expand New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a project that cost $850 million (including an accompanying endowment) and was completed in 2004, died on Dec. 16. He was 87. The cause was …
