CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Visual Arts
Visual Arts at Catastrophe Ballet surveys the dark, macabre, surrealist, expressionist and outsider traditions — across exhibition, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, design and fashion. Coverage tracks shows, releases and news from galleries, institutions and independent artists working in that register.
Julie Green’s ‘The Last Supper’ Memorializes Hundreds of People’s Final Meals While on Death Row
Dark Emotions Evoke Growth in Alejandro Aguliar Canela’s Graphite Drawings
Beauty becomes survival in ‘Midnight Bloom’ by Ornélie, at Corey Helford Gallery
Remembering Milan Knížák, Simone Forti, and Francisco Correa Cordero
16 Arrested for Showing Portraits of People Killed by ICE in DC Senate Building
Forthcoming New Museum Show Is a Love Letter to the Bowery
This new zine is challenging big tech’s fear of sex
StyleZeitgeist Podcast: The Birth of the Antwerp Six with Oscar van den Boogard
How Betye Saar Came to Be
Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2027 Men’s – Backstage
Ellen Pau’s Elegy to a Vanishing Hong Kong
Jan-Jan Van Essche Spring/Summer 2027
‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry cover
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
Do you want to smell like a ghost or a vagina? Meet fragrance brand Heretic
The seduction of discomfort: enter Wenjia Wang’s unsettling, beautiful worlds
The Queer Surrealists Who Fought Nazis With Paper Bullets
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2026 Collection
Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99
The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Genesis Belanger’s Uncanny Sculptures
‘We are a living archive’: Inside Paris’ queer underground cabaret scene
Costume Art at the Met Museum in New York
Style Zeitgeist Podcast: Art on the Edge with Banks Violette
Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’
UdK Rundgang 2026: Inside Berlin’s Young Art Scene
Trompe-L’œil Paintings by Jason Limon Reveal a Hidden Skeletal World
Artist Chloe Wise asks: Are UFOs actually angels?
Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)
“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage
Photos from the sleazy, sticky runway return of Victor Barragán
Rick Owens Spring / Summer 2027 – Paris Backstage
Claudia Six Exclusive Interview: “Do you need a friend?”
Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring / Summer 2027 – Paris
NAMACHEKO Spring / Summer 2027 – Paris
The Hudson River School’s American Apocalypse
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia
Introducing PDR Press Minis
Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36)
