Phaidon , 07.13.2017
Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show?

Tate Modern’s hit new exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, charts both important social changes in American politics, and also presents a number of once-obscure artists to an international …

The New York Times , 05.22.2017
Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See?

... "There are exceptions in the Giardini, the park that hosts some 30 national pavilions. One, a witty video by the young Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows an acrobat transferring a museum’s worth of Socialist …

57th Venice Biennale Short Guide , 05.17.2017
McAurthur Binion – 57th Venice Biennale Short Guide

Artsy , 05.12.2017
14 Artists You’ll Be Talking about Long after the Venice Biennale

McArthur Binion Until he came to install for the Biennale, the 70-year-old Binion had never set foot in Venice. “I told friends that I wouldn’t go unless my work was in this show,” he said, smiling, …

Frieze , 05.11.2017
First impressions of Christine Macel’s ‘Viva Arte Viva’ in the Central Pavilion

... "A beautiful suite of paintings by McArthur Binion, their surfaces pasted with shredded official documents – the artist’s birth certificate and car registration, for example – painted over with a crosshatch of black and …

Artnews, 05.09.2017
McArthur Binion Addresses the Past in a Stunning Suite of Paintings

One of the first galleries in the Giardini section of Christine Macel’s curated exhibition at the Biennale, “Viva Arte Viva,” is a skylit display of paintings by the African-American artist McArthur Binion. Completed between 2014 …

Artnet, 02.07.2017
57th Venice Biennale Reveals List of Participating Artists

See whose work will be on display at "Viva Arte Viva" this summer. The 57th Venice Biennale released the list of participating artists for its main exhibition today, revealing the 120 artists—compared to last year’s 136—whose …

Artnet, 09.22.2016
McArthur Binion: A Must-See Art Guide: Chicago

A city that takes pride in its industrious past, Chicago is the birthplace of the zipper and the United States’ first skyscraper. Like many other East-Coast cities, it has a charming balance of past, present, …

The Wall Street Journal , 10.09.2015
Art Review: Sarah Sze, McArthur Binion and Dana Schutz

McArthur Binion (b. 1946) has been rigorously going at mostly muted, abstract paintings for over 40 years. Although Mr. Binion spent the early part of his career in New York, he’s thought of primarily as …

Hyperallergic , 10.04.2015
Recovering Abstraction: McArthur Binion’s Intimate Grids

McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong (September 10 – October 17, 2015) stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after …

The Observer , 09.25.2015
Hitting Refresh: McArthur Binion at Galerie Lelong

Anyone that thinks artists are immune to either a gentle boost or a subtle snub from the art establishment is fooling themselves. Context and circumstance can be artists’ foes as easily as their friends, and …

Artforum , 11.03.2013
McArthur Binion Kavi Gupta

To see “Ghost: Rhythms,” Chicago-based artist McArthur Binion’s first solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, was to be let in on a secret. From a distance, the rarely seen abstractions on unstretched canvas and aluminum from …

NewCity Art, 04.16.2013
Review: McArthur Binion/Kavi Gupta Gallery

Shortly before creating the paintings in “Ghost: Rhythms,” in the early 1970s, McArthur Binion became the first African American to receive an MFA from Cranbrook Art Academy. The eleventh child of Mississippi tenant farmers, the …