Art
From Acoustic Mirrors to Kitchen Huts, Sculptures Take Root in Harlem Parks
A public sculpture series curated by the Studio Museum in Harlem showcases work by artists who have strong connections to the area.
Alexis Clements
Writer and filmmaker in Brooklyn. Major works include: feature documentary about LGBTQ+ women’s spaces, “All We've Got;” experimental film and prose project, “There Must Be a Word;” and artist-focused podcast series, “The Answer is No.”
Art
Learning a Lesson from New York City Birds
A public artwork reminds us that what’s happening to the humans in a city is not necessarily the same as what’s happening to the animals.
Art
How Art Making Is a Type of Management
The Visible Hand looks at how artists themselves build institutions, are managers, and are very much a part of and influenced by the systems their work moves through.
Art
Searching for a Global New Feminism
An exhibition attempts to find the new feminism in work by artists from around the world. It falls short of its task but raises some questions worth asking.
Performance
A Dance that Moves to the Many Tongues of Brooklyn
In a musical and dance performance, a multilingual cast explores the polyphony of Brooklyn through language and movement.
Performance
20 Dancers Build, Shape, and Share a World for Themselves
Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the dance piece the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds incorporated structured improvisation, a deep sense of play, a bold engagement with the audience, and a particular permission given to watch and witness.
Art
Excavating the Layers Under the Landscape
ARLINGTON, Va. — The landscape paintings that taught me most about the form as a young person were the works of Albert Bierstadt and Bob Ross.
Books
Outdoor Art and the Private Playgrounds of Privilege
It starts with the title: Outdoor Art. Simple, straightforward, you might think.
Art
In Brooklyn, a Forum Focuses the Fight Against Displacement
The road that led to last week’s Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement at the Brooklyn Museum was long and winding, but its starting point is very clear.
Books
The Artists and Activists Who’ve Aimed at the Roots of Injustice
A few years ago I was covering a panel discussion for Hyperallergic featuring members of Gran Fury, an ACT UP affinity group focused primarily on producing what group members themselves called “propaganda” against a government hellbent on isolating, vilifying, and smugly looking on as tens of thousa
Art
What Role Can Artists Play in Prison Reform?
When I walked into the Greene Space for Creative Capital’s first Creative Conversations event — focused on artists who make work about criminal justice and the prison system — I felt a little skeptical.
Art
Dismantling White Supremacy Among US Poets
Within certain chambers of poetry in the past year, a series of incidents, specifically involving white poets presenting work that has been called out for its callous racism, has led to a great deal of debate on the internet and elsewhere.