Less Time Than Ideas - Art Across the Americas

David Hockney, one of the world's most popular painters, dies at 88. 

Alexandra Rauscher, editor of the Art in San Miguel magazine (artinsanmiguel.com) interviews art writer Jon Bonfiglio about the unique offerings of San Luis Potosí, in Mexico's north. 

The El Paso art legend that is Hal Marcus, published in Glasstire magazine of art. https://glasstire.com/2026/04/20/color-community-on-the-borderlands-the-life-legacy-of-hal-marcus/

In “All There Is,” Cheryl Pope's new show at Monique Meloche, she engages with landscape through her new geomorphological "paintings." Review published in New City, Chicago. https://art.newcity.com/2026/04/20/asking-new-and-better-questions-with-cheryl-pope/

Geopolitical tensions at the Venice Biennale. 

Jon Bonfiglio with the news that global art phenomenon Banksy has secretly installed a new sculpture in central London. 

Jon Bonfiglio speaks to journalists Julia Tilton & Ilana Newman about the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago's exhibition, Dancing the Revolution , which considers Dancehall & Reggaeton music and dance as a revolutionary practice for collective liberation. 

On February 9, 2026, Ionit Behar was appointed as Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). The feature article below - and recorded in this episode - charts her time prior to the appointment, in what is a fascinating personal history. https://art.newcity.com/2026/04/07/opening-windows-into-other-worlds-an-interview-with-the-mcas-newest-curator-ionit-behar/

RENART Gallery of the CREA cultural center in Irapuato is running ‘Anacronías del Presente’ (Anachronisms of the Present) until May 22, 2026. The exhibition features the work — in dialogue — of two regional artists, Diego Mtz Peña of Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, and Eduardo Zúñiga of León, Guanajuato.  Here, Jon Bonfiglio is in conversation with artists Diego Mtz Peña and Alan Pfeiffer. The reference...

Jon Bonfiglio speaks to writer Alexandra Rauscher about the work of Penny Goring as part of the Unloving Love exhibition at the Colegio de San Ildelfonso in Mexico City. Rauscher's review on the exhibition is available here: https://artinsanmiguel.com/unloving-love-inside-penny-gorings-radically-vulnerable-universe

The enduring romantic appeal of the art heist. 

The remarkable photography of Mexico's Enrique Metinides.  https://aperture.org/exhibition/101-tragedies-of-enrique-metinides-2/ https://slate.com/culture/2013/03/enrique-metinides-101-tragedies-of-enrique-metinides-documents-50-years-of-crime-scenes-in-mexico-city-photos.html

In our increasingly transient, ephemeral age, the act of actively remembering, of going out of our way to remember, precisely and deliberately, is more important than ever. In this way, maybe remembering can be one of our greatest acts of resistance. 

A contemplation on the gothic horror that is the Venice Biennale. 

Tracey Emin, and her relationship with her home town of Margate, England. 

Jonathan Bonfiglio's review of the Monuments exhibition in Los Angeles, for Glasstire magazine.  https://glasstire.com/2026/01/19/where-art-confronts-history-monuments-the-power-of-gathering/

Jon Bonfiglio speaks to founder and director of Dolores 54 Alfredo Fosado about Mexico City Art Week, and the unique art and residency space that is Dolores 54. For more information about Dolores 54: https://www.dolores-54.com/ To read Jon Bonfiglio's review of Mexico City Art Week, copy and paste the link below: https://glasstire.com/2026/02/06/mexico-city-art-week-making-sense-of-the-labyri...

Jon Bonfiglio speaks to Dr. Jacqueline Lazú about the history of the Young Lords in Chicago, a group which was initially a street gang and evolved in a seminal civil rights organization. For more information on the work of Dr. Lazú: https://jlazu.com/ To read the article by Jon Bonfiglio on the Young Lords in Chicago exhibition at DePaul Art Museum: https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/29/young-lords-i...

The murals of Brazilian artist Carybé at Miami International Airport, gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean. Youtube link to view the murals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=dNNGteCIM9M&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.miami-airport.com%2FSite%2520Specific_South%2520Terminal.asp&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

The bust at San Souci palace also exists in an abandoned palace, within Haiti, a country which also has been discarded, abandoned.  Different to forgotten.  It’s a wilful act. It didn’t fall overboard, it was pushed.  The complexity, in all of this, is the intent.  --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-Souci_Palace

If you come across work by Frida Kahlo, try to make it a surprise, try to go alone. Print out a painting on bad paper, only when your printer’s ink cartridge is running out, and go to a park with it.  Take nothing else. Forget that it’s a piece by Frida Kahlo. Go and spend some time with it, as you might a new friend, and see what it has to say, by itself, in the silence, in the park, on a Tuesday...

Questioning what is radical, American Artist draws on Octavia Butler's prescient vision of humanity to explore racial capitalism, technology and notions of humanity.  https://artsfuse.org/319285/visual-arts-review-a-glitch-in-the-system-american-artists-homage-to-octavia-butler/

In coversation with Candace Locklear of Good Chaos, discussing the wide-ranging work of Latinx artist Yvette Mayorga.  Recent reviews of Mayorga's work by Jonathan Bonfiglio are linked here:  https://glasstire.com/2025/10/14/more-than-bubble-gum-pink-press-ons-yvette-mayorgas-pop-up-nail-alon/ https://art.newcity.com/2025/07/11/pink-and-violent-a-review-of-yvette-mayorga-at-monique-meloche-ga...

The first Midwest solo show by Lagos-based artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi brings together whimsical and playful work that's hard to pin down. https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/23/the-work-of-earthy-unruly-art-faerie-at-the-arts-club/

As a physical reaction, an art review, like a poem, should make the reader stop, take a breath or a moment, and look out of the train window at the passing landscape.  Even if the reader is not on a train, able to stop and look out, this should be the metaphysical effect that is generated. When we read a well-written review, we should all find ourselves on that train carriage, taking that moment,...