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A review is offered for the Samurai Museum Berlin, located in Germany.

The article previews the exhibition "William Klein: YES Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948-2013," at the International Center of Photography in New York from June to September 12, 2022, which features the photographs "Moves and Pepsi, Harlem, New York," "Kiev Railroad Station, Moscow" and "Independence Day Parade, Dakar."

The article previews the exhibition "Virtual Realities: The Art of M. C. Escher From the Michael S. Sachs Collection," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas through September 5, 2022, which will feature works of artist Escher, including the prints "Sky and Water I" and "Reptiles" and the lithograph "Hand With a Reflecting Sphere."

The article previews the exhibition "Hyperreal. The Art of Trompe l'Oleil," at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain through May 22, 2022, which features trompe l'oeil paintings, including Samuel van Hoogstraten's "Trompe l'Oeil Still Life," Cornelis Brisé's "Documents on the Treasury Wall of the Amsterdam City Hall" and Juan Fernández's "Still Life With Four Bunches of Grapes."

BETTY UDESEN PHOTOGRAPHS THE AIDS CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE BY FOCUSING ON THE WOMEN IN ONE COMMUNITY AND THE ORPHANS THE PLAGUE HAS LEFT BEHIND. BETTY UDESEN'S PHOTO-ESSAY, 'IN HER MOTHER'S [...]

The article reviews the exhibition "The Language of Beauty in African Art" featuring African art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from April 3 to July 31, 2022.

The article features artist Helen Lundeberg and her paintings. Also cited are Lundeberg's exposure to art movements like Post Surrealism or New Classicism, Precisionism, and Neo-Romanticism, how Lundeberg co-founded the Post Surrealism movement with Lorser Feitelson, and Lundeberg's inspirations like Italian painters Domenico Ghirlandaio and Piero della Francesca.

The article reviews the exhibition "Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Lee and Lee Mullican" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in California until July 26, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman" at the Metropolitan Museum in New York until May 15, 2022.

The article features artist Nancy Callan and her glass art. According to Callan, she has been blowing glass for 27 years and it is all about exploration, discovery and collaboration with the materials. Also cited are how Callan creates flat wall pieces, glass panels, and sculptures, and her study at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) to improve her computer skills.

The article reviews the exhibition "Milton Avery" featuring the paintings of Avery (1885-1965) at several venues, namely, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Connecticut in 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Donatello, the Renaissance" featuring the works of sculptor Donatello at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Museum and the Musei del Bargello museum in Florence, Italy starting March 19, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia" featuring abstract artists like Raquel Forner, Jack Whitten, and Zao Wou-ki at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas until July 10, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Kamoda Shoji: The Art of Change" featuring the pottery of Japanese potter Shoji at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) in Minnesota until April 17, 2022.

The article features artist Leonor Fini and her erotic paintings that assert women's perceptions and power. According to art dealer Julien Levy, Fini's arts depict female power and sexuality. Also cited are Fini's colleagues like Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, and Paul Eluard, and her surreal art featuring bird-women, sphinx, and Circe-like witches.

The article features artist Jack Wright and his abstract paintings. Also cited are how Wright developed a painting technique that conveys a sense of color as vibration and energy, his study of art at the St. Paul School of art under painter Cameron Booth, the influence of artist Morris Graves on Wright's paintings, and his marriage to Helen Partridge "Patty" Ordway.

The article reviews the exhibition "A Powerful Pantheon: Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome" featuring artists Theodorus Van Kessel, Conrad Martin Metz, and Giulio Romano, at the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania until May 15, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Mixpantli: Space, Time, and Indigenous Origins of Mexico" featuring Aztec art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California until May 1, 2022.

The article features artist Jim Gaylord and his collage-based art using watercolor paper. Also cited are how Gaylord's artworks evoked Constructivism and other versions of geometric abstract art from the 1920s and 1930s, his use of Photoshop to make digital guide in making gouache-on-paper collages, and his study of film production at University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

The article reviews the exhibition "John Torreano: Painting Outer Space/Inner Space, 1989 to Present" at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York until February 27, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Turner's Modern World," at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas through February 6, 2022, which features works by British painter J. M. W. Turner, including "Interior of a Cannon Foundry," "Interior of a Tilt Forge" and "The Battle of Trafalgar".

The article reviews the exhibition "Holbein: Capturing Character," at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California through January 9, 2022, which features works by artist Hans Holbein the Younger, including the portrait paintings "Simon George of Cornwall," "Tantalus" and "Mary, Lady Guildford".

A biography of artist Lynne Drexler is presented. Drexler was born in Newport News, Virginia and studied contemporary arts at artist Hans Hofmann's school and later with artist/teacher Robert Motherwall at Hunter College. She married her fellow abstract painter John Hultberg in 1962. She engaged in printmaking at the Tamarind Print Studios. She started doing plein air painting and incorporated representational elements while living on the Monhegan Island.

The article reviews the exhibition "Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective," at the Seattle Art Museum through February 6, 2022, which features works by photographer Cunningham, including "Two Callas," "Magnolia Blossom" and "Another Arm".

The article reviews the exhibition "Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared," at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas through May 15, 2022, which features paintings by Pierre, including "Lest You Fall," "Hereafter Ye Shall Be Changed" and "Hold On, Hold Tight".

The article reviews the exhibition "Surrealism Beyond Borders" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from October 11, 2021 to January 30, 2021, featuring surrealist paintings by several artists including Wilfredo Lam, Giorgio de Chirico, and Leonora Carrington.

The article profiles abstract artist Charles Biederman. Topics discussed include early life and career, his career in Red Wing, Minnesota wherein he pursued his own direction and artistic philosophy, and some of his notable works including the 1977-1979 painting "Constable," the 1958 oil on aluminum "Structurist Relief, Red Wing Number 1," and the 1938 painted wood and plastic "Work No. 9."

The article reviews the exhibition "Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful" at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. through January 23, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "American Art Deco: Designing for the People 1918-1939" at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee from October 8, 2021 to January 2, 2022, featuring artworks by several artists including Paul Manship, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton.

The article reviews the exhibition "Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective" at the New York Studio School in New York City from October 18 to November 28, 2021.

The article reviews the exhibition "African American Art in the 20th Century," a traveling exhibition put together by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. in 2021.

The article reviews the exhibition "Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art," which is touring the U.S. from October 7, 2021 to January 2, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea," organized by the Smithsonian at the Boise Museum of Art in Boise, Idaho in 2021.

The article reviews the exhibition "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror," on view the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City from September 29-February 13, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Joan Mitchell," featuring the artworks of abstract artist Mitchell at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in California from September 4, 2021 to January 17, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750" featuring artists like Matthias Melijn, Gioacchino Assereto, and Antonio Travi, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from September 26, 2021 to January 9, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Imagined Realism: Scott and Stuart Gentling" at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas from September 25, 2021 to January 9, 2022.

The article reviews the exhibition "Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82" featuring the works of designers Anton Kimbel and Joseph Cabus at the Brooklyn Museum in New York until February 13, 2022.

The article reviews the American painting exhibition "In American Waters" by several artists including Georgia O'Keeffe and Amy Sherald at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts until October 3, 2021.

The article profiles American abstract painter Arthur Dove and his works. Topics discussed include the focus of the work of Dove on modernism and the U.S. tradition of Romantic landscape, preference of the artist for the abstracted or symbolic versions of the sun, moon, plant life and other elements of nature, and significance of the publication of his art catalogue in 2021 titled "Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things" by Debra Bricker Balken.

The article reviews the abstract art exhibition "Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group" at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico from June 26 to September 26, 2021.

The article reviews the exhibition "Changing Times: Art of the 1960s" at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio until September 12, 2021.

The article reviews the painting exhibition "Better Times? Waldmüller and Biedermeier in Vienna" at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria from May 12, 2021 to February 27, 2022.

The article reviews the poster exhibition "Toulouse-Lautrec and the Celebrity Culture of Paris" at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois until June 6, 2021.

The article reviews the traveling exhibition "Ralston Crawford: Air + Space + War" at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania from June 20 to September 19, 2021.

The article profiles German-born painter and filmmaker Oskar Fischinger of Southern California. Topics discussed include the European non-objective style of the abstract paintings created by Fischinger from the 1930s to 1960s, books written about and exhibitions organized that feature the work of the artist, and role of the mystical-occult movement Theosophy in the strong palette preference of sky blue and white in many of the paintings by Fischinger.