Jason Farago
Jason Farago is US art critic for the Guardian. He also edits Even magazine.
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International Center of Photography review – less exhibit than Pinterest boardThe reopened ICP’s disagreeable first show junks art history and simply aggregates images ranging from Cindy Sherman to Kim Kardashian selfies
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Frieze New York review – art world displays its best face and a fine assThere’s a booth full of Damien Hirsts, a fridge full of Soylent, and a donkey which is also an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan as NYCs most important art fair returns
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Marisol: the forgotten star of pop artOnce as famous and influential as Andy Warhol, the artist, who has died aged 85, fell into obscurity – but her enigmatic work is sure to be rediscovered and endure
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SFMOMA review: it's art history on steroids but must go beyond big namesHeart of inaugural presentation is a collection that includes Warhol and Ellsworth Kelly, but in city’s battle over inequality the gallery may have picked a side
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William Wegman: the 'dog artist' who still leads the packFamous for his works featuring his Weimaraners, the artist has two new shows dedicated to his postcard paintings – and they’re just as delightfully droll
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Revolution in the Making review – unspooling an alternative art historyIn its enormous new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an inaugural exhibition comprised solely of sculptures by female artists
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium review – hunting for sex and deathThe late photographer’s images, which burn with desire yet remain ice-cold, reveal rough gay sex as both aesthetically conservative and politically radical
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The Armory Show review – a more thoughtful, less cash-and-carry art weekThe market may have cooled but there’s still plenty to see at New York’s art fairs – not least a concerted turnout for African art at the Armory and a grown-up, but still fresh, Independent
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The Met Breuer review – museum's new outpost has an uncertain startThe Met has a new space for contemporary art in the brutalist building once occupied by the Whitney – but will the shows there be worthy of the illustrious mothership?
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Vigée Le Brun: artist to the aristocracy who played and changed the gameA new exhibition of the French artist’s work reveal her flattering portraiture of Marie-Antoinette, but she also helped reshape the rules of representation
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Sucked up, squeezed out: the super-absorbent art of Park McArthurArtists are a slippery sort, says the US sculptor, whose first British show features ‘diaper’ paper, heaps of condoms, and forbidding monoliths of foam
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Robert Ryman review – more than simply pale and interestingWorking almost entirely with the colour white, the artist has for six decades created remarkably warm paintings in which the immaterial is made manifest
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The best American art shows of 2015A thrilling show about the alignment between jazz, art and politics rocked Chicago, while the Met staged a groundbreaking show of Kongo civilisation and Charles Ray’s sculpture proved too hot for the Whitney to handle
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Art Basel Miami Beach: has inequality invaded the art world?With its glitzy celebrity parties, America’s biggest fair shows the art world at its most excessive but not everyone is getting richer – particularly the artists
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Art Basel Miami Beach: a high-speed tour of America's biggest art fair – videoLet Guardian art critic Jason Farago guide you through the splendor of Art Basel Miami Beach, considered the most important art fair in America
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For a New World to Come review – photographers capture Japan's upheavalIn the years following 1968, Japan was rocked by protests and a new generation of photographers rose up to document and express their country’s turmoil
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Lulu review – sex, art and murder create a landmark night for the MetIn a critical dialogue, Guardian US’s classical music and art critics review William Kentridge’s triumphantly radical production of Berg’s modernist masterpiece
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Frank Stella at the Whitney – from impassive abstraction to riotous baroqueOne of the longest careers in American art has produced everything from tasteful nonagons to bombastically lurid steel sculptures – but collected into this epochal show, it all starts to make sense
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Moses und Aron on the Paris stage: from the director who brought us shit, a bullDirector Romeo Castellucci loves to shock. So how did he approach a new production of Schoenberg’s challenging and complex opera for Paris’s Opera Bastille?
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Clement Siatous: Sagren review - an evocation of a past erasedThe inhabitants of the Chagos Islands - including the artist - were driven from their homes when the British who owned it handed it over to the US
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When LOVE takes over: how Robert Indiana's artwork conquered the planetThe American artist’s LOVE sculpture is more famous than the Mona Lisa. What a pity most people don’t know that he made it – and that he didn’t copyright it in the 60s
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Kongo: Power and Majesty review – African treasures inspire awe at the MetA formidably rigorous and erudite exhibition looks at Kongo civilisation across five centuries, unwinding any ‘primitivist’ stereotypes that still attend African art
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From Rothko to Rodin: landmark exhibitions dominate fall art offeringsDeep dives – including shows on Frank Stella, the Dutch masters, and Chicago’s first architecture biennale – give American art lovers lots to look forward to
Diane Arbus: In the Beginning review – a more sympathetic eye on America