Your brain is full of microplastics. The asteroid Bennu. Ockham’s razor. Hula hoops. The shape of the universe. The kissing problem. A new book-sorting algorithm. Las Meninas. Jean Tinguely. Franz Kafka. Shigeru Ban. And more.
No more Mendelism. Bauhaus in exile. Eating the Earth. DNA from Pompeii body casts. Why dogs shake themselves dry. A history of the comic strip. Zur Soziologie des Verlusts. Francis Williams gets his due. Sophie Calle. David Bessis. Bruce Nauman. And more.
As part of the Ensor year Antwerp’s photography museum (FOMU) has organized a retrospective of the American artist Cindy Sherman with a specific focus on her engagement with the world of fashion.
In 2024, James Ensor is being celebrated across Belgium to mark 75 years since the artist's death. The KMSKA has organized a comprehensive survey of his work with loans from around the world.
I enjoyed the Tom Wesselmann retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton much more than I had expected. The exhibition doubles as a grand survey of Pop Art, with works by all the usual suspects and some surprises.
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Surrealism the Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with several other museums, has organized a large survey, which shows Surrealism in all its breadth and geographical scope.