Kathleen Ash-Milby, cocurator of the American pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, discusses the significance of broader histories and representation, along with her top five obsessions. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

Andy Battaglia reviews Oliver Beer’s latest New York show at Almine Rech, where the artist turned 37 feline-shaped vessels and figurines into a playable “Cat Orchestra.' artnews.com/art-in-america…

What does the future of showing and supporting the work of daring artists look like? The first edition of the Malta Biennale, which runs through May 31, has proven itself a promising platform. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Scribbled numbers, wiped-away letters, word-like scrawls recur throughout Kikuo Saito’s paintings of the early 1990s. A selection of his work form a wonderfully mystifying solo show on view now at New York’s James Fuentes Gallery. artnews.com/art-in-america…

In her ongoing series “Levers of Power,” Sheida Soleimani recontextualizes images of public figures to reveal how seemingly simple gestures—a pointed finger, a clenched fist—inform perceptions of people both familiar and foreign. artnews.com/art-in-america…

MoMA’s Joan Jonas retrospective demonstrates how effectively she deconstructed and assimilated elements of the Japanese theatrical tradition of Noh into five decades of performances, videos, and installations. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Shana Moulton’s current MoMA show is for anyone who has ever googled a mysterious symptom and then felt overwhelmed. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Indigenous artist Kay WalkingStick spoke with Alex Greenberger about her approach to painting—and probing—landscapes, all the while looking part the land’s surface to unearth its wounds. artnews.com/art-in-america…

On the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich’s birthday, several German exhibitions are celebrating his legacy. Kelly Presutti examines how the artist’s Romantic landscapes continue to draw admiration—and ire—centuries later. artnews.com/art-in-america…

“Focusing on emotional response rather than specific events, Käthe Kollwitz’s work elicits a universalizing empathy that feels relevant in our own time, when factual specificity is so hard to come by, and so hard to bear,” writes Faye Hirsch. artnews.com/art-in-america…

What sets Joan Semmel’s work apart from that of contemporaneous feminist artists is the way her paintings are acts of world-building. The painter’s version of feminist art is striking for how it makes you feel, not just think. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Too often, we send our refuse away, never to be seen again. By showing it back to us in galleries, these eight artists aren't letting us off the hook. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

Sandra Vásquez de la Hora, who emerged as a star at the 2022 Venice Biennale, is now the subject of a survey at the Denver Art Museum, featuring more than 190 of her works.

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The mutability of iconoclastic Chicago artist Alice Shaddle has proven double-edged: it made her singular, but also a bit difficult to categorize. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Drawing on music, video, and installations that evoke the presence of environmental sights and sounds, Raven Chacon is a composer and artist whose work focuses in part on land and its many different inhabitants. artnews.com/art-in-america…

In our latest “Reframed” newsletter, Alex Greenberger reviews a show of Kikuo Saito’s early ‘90s “Monochromes,” writing that “their surfaces evoke something more like the intriguing thrill of communicating with a person channeling an alien tongue.” artnews.com/art-in-america…

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the landmark Surrealist Manifesto. The Centre Pompidou-Metz is celebrating with a survey of automatic drawing pioneer André Masson.

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Firelei Baez's works, now the subject of an ICA Boston survey, are gorgeous, so it can be easy to look past their ugly content in which histories of colonialism are laid bare.

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Iranian American artist Sheida Soleimani interrogates the narratives disseminated by the press and social media in a practice that fuses sculpture, performance, and photography. artnews.com/art-in-america…

“Stylistically and temperamentally, she has long been considered a bit of an outlier,” Jeremy Lybarger writes of late artist Alice Shaddle, “but she was always indebted to the strains of eccentricity and iconoclasm that distinguished the city’s artmaking.' artnews.com/art-in-america…