Lilly Wei

For those who have sensed a kindred soul in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, the debut book of Rachel Corbett, an editor at Modern Painters, will be an informative, sometimes troubling read. .. Read more

The first two words of this exhibition’s snappy title seem an unlikely pairing: one is associated with the freewheeling and populist, the other with the formal and elitist. Smartly, sensitively curated by Andrew Blauvelt (the newly appointed director of the Cranbrook Art Museum and former senior curator of design at the Walker), “Hippie Modernism” rounds up the art, architecture and design of the counterculture from 1964 to 1974... Read more

Simply stated, Lonnie Holley’s exhibition at the Halsey soared. The approximately 40 sculptures were selected from the collection of William S. Arnett and the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which Arnett founded, as well as the African-American artist’s own collection... Read more

On July 9, 1975, Bas Jan Ader (Bastiaan Johan Christiaan Ader), the Dutch-born, Los Angeles-based Conceptual artist whose work encompassed photography, film and performance art, embarked from Chatham, Mass., on a solo voyage across the North Atlantic... Read more

With the world's eye on the Middle East and its upheavals, the 15th FotoFest Biennial in Houston presents a timely and extensive view of art production in the region... Read more

Nalini Malani's installation In Search of Vanished Blood (2012), titled after a poem by the revolutionary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, was the spellbinding centerpiece of her first solo exhibition at Lelong's New York branch. .. Read more

Those who knew Cai Jin's work from New York (where she lived from 1997 to 2007) no doubt would have done a double take on entering her recent Beijing exhibition. .. Read more

21c Museum Hotel, a boutique hotel-cum-museum that opened its first location in 2006, in Louisville, Ky., has now come to Bentonville, Ark. The spacious, minimalist structure is designed by New York-based Deborah Berke Partners and is a stone's throw from the center of the small Arkansas town put on the national art map in 2011 by the opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. .. Read more

In his first New York solo, the Belgian artist Peter Rogiers (b. 1967) presented five large-scale sculptures, strange creatures that skitter between the animal and vegetal, abstract and representational... Read more

Although the mingling of art and text is by now commonplace, Philadelphia-based sculptor and installation artist Jeanne Jaffe coupled the mediums with particular theatricality in her recent solo show. Titled "Four Quartets," it was dedicated to T.S. Eliot—a modernist icon—and his luminous, incantatory poem cycle of the same name. Installed in three small rooms of a bare-bones nonprofit organization, the exhibition connected with the poems as a kind of "objective correlative," a term Eliot used to designate the objects and circumstances that correspond to a specific emo­tion or thought... Read more

"Conceptual Abstraction," curated by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro-on a suggestion by artist Valerie Jaudon and with the help of dealer Carroll Janis-was a 21-year reunion of sorts, and a 21-gun salute to abstraction and painting... Read more

First, you saw—or sort of saw—Big Little Dollhouse (2010), an arrangement of overlaid geometric shapes that suggest painting in process... Read more

The biggest architectural intervention was the connecting of three contiguous buildings—the neo-Gothic Street Hall of 1866; the Italianate Old Yale Art Gallery of 1928; and the magnificent 1953 modernist building of Louis Kahn—to create a single museum that now ranks as one of this country's great art institutions and, with Harvard, as its foremost teaching museum. As part of that merger, an elevator and staircase were inserted between the Old Yale Art Gallery and Street Hall... Read more

Carrie Mae Weems’s first retrospective, “Three Decades of Photography and Video,” curated by Kathryn E. Delmez, is an engrossing, overdue look at an artist whose name is often better known than her work, with the exception of her acclaimed series “Kitchen Table” (1990)... Read more