Art
Tracing Imaginary Lines and Fluid Borders in the Midst of a Migrant Crisis
PARIS — Just outside the gates of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, an enormous, dreamy-faced, freestyle swimmer surges from the ground.
Alison Kinney
Alison Kinney is the author of Hood (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Art
As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera
Inevitably, the history of Black American opera chronicles not just perseverance and accomplishment, but also racism and exclusion.
Art
Philistine, or What Happens When You Break a Sculpture in a Gallery
"Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting," someone famously quipped once — maybe Ad Reinhardt or Barnett Newman.