In the David Winton Bell Gallery’s Spring exhibition of Julien Creuzet’s 2024 French Pavilion, plastic took center stage. To better understand why waste surfaces in contemporary art practices, the Art Review interviewed Creuzet, Max Liboiron, and Jorge Otero-Pailos earlier this year. What emerged was a critical conversation concerning the imprint of colonial legacy, capitalist development, and social stratification upon the landscape today.

Genevieve analyzes the mysterious composition of Ivan Aivazovsky’s "Lunar Night on the Black Sea" (1859) and its connections to Russia's shifting identity during the nineteenth century.

A closer look at the lives of designers Ray and Charles Eames, a couple that contributed some of America’s most iconic furniture designs and commentary on mid-century America.

Unearthing mysticism in a 1970 Arbus photograph using John Szarkowski’s concepts of the thing itself, the detail, and the vantage point.

Parsa explores the poetry of Michelangelo by analyzing the underlying messages expressed in his poems regarding faith, beauty, and love. Parsa engages in literary analysis, as well as an examination of the Neoplatonic philosophical underpinnings of Michelangelo’s poetry.

Parsa considers the extent to which the decrees of the Council of Trent changed the subject matter, composition, and style of art in Europe in what has become known as Post-Tridentine art. He also reflects upon attempts to change and reform improper religious art during the Post-Tridentine era, as well as attempts to retroactively rectify issues in earlier prominent works of art.