Ragnar Kjartansson's Spiritual Satire at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Much of Kjartansson’s work combines dry humor with a sobering examination of power and violence.
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Much of Kjartansson’s work combines dry humor with a sobering examination of power and violence.
We take a look at the most exciting shows around the world this year
ABSENT FROM THE FIRST RANK in modernist art histories, Sonia Delaunay occupies a prime place in narratives of twentieth-century textile design and fashion.1 A current retrospective calls that long-standing evaluation into question. Boldly redefining its subject as an “avant-gardist, entrepreneur and commercially minded businesswoman”—descriptors that reverberate richly today—the show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, foregrounds its revisionist goals. From the outset, deep-rooted hierarchies segregating the fine and applied arts—hierarchies that Delaunay he...