Amsterdam’s historic West-Indisch Huis was once home to the Dutch West India Company but today houses the John Adams Institute,...
Independent thinking as the John Adams Institute turns 40
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The Year in Black Art: Six Group Exhibitions
The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Marshall is now lauded as...
The Philadelphia Art Museum Takes a Close Look at its (Kind of) Biggest Attraction: The Rocky Statue at its Front Door
The Philadelphia Art Museum is organizing a 2026 exhibition centered on a famous artwork that is closely associated with it but is actually not part of its collection: the statue to Rocky Balboa, the fictional boxer created by Sylvester Stallone, that stands at the...
A Year in NYC Art Shows
Did you know that an exhibition opens every 17 seconds in New York City? Just kidding, but it certainly does seem that way here, as though art shows were sprouting from the pavement or falling from the sky. They are, in reality, the result of the labor and love of...
The Best New York Art Exhibitions of 2025
The winds of change blasted through New York in 2025. Dealers fretted about the state of the market as galleries closed. Curators privately worried about what could and could not be shown as an oppressive President returned to power in Washington, D.C. Deep-pocketed...
Remembering Robert Grosvenor, Quietly Elegant Sculptor of the Ordinary and Peripheral
It was 1978, and I was sitting in the first row of a medium-size classroom at the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD was a good school. We had a robust lineup of speakers. Mostly they were painters, sometimes there was a sculptor, always they were men listing their...
Düsseldorf Delight: actsofpostvandalism 3 @ freibad Düsseldorf by Peter Michalski
Ok, hierbij een klein postje van afgelopen weekend-expo in Düsseldorf: actsofpostvandalism deel 3 @ Freibad Dusseldorf by Peter Michalski (de man behind HOOD projects) Eerder jaren organiseerde Michalski een 3-weekenden en een 2 weekenden durende postvandalism...
Bohemian Rhapsody heads Top 2000 again as 1970s dominate
Th’s year’s Top 2000, NPO Radio 2’s annual countdown of the Netherlands’ all-time favourite songs, reveals few changes in the...
The Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025
It's been a big year in New York City — and not just because we (thankfully) got a new mayor. New and updated museums are everywhere you turn: The Studio Museum in Harlem is back and better than ever after a seven-year sabbatical, and the Frick’s spent some of its...