Comics
Yoko Ono’s Quiet Destructions
Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career.
Coco Picard
Comics
Mark Rothko’s Emotional Self-Portraits
An exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris shows a lesser-known side of the American artist.
Comics
The Life and Times of Patrociño Barela
A new exhibition at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico honors the underrecognized legacy of the self-taught wood carver.
Books
Queer Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Under the Shadow of Church
Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies.
Art
Freedom in Body and Water
Sama Alshaibi’s Four Series draws on historical sources, contexts, and techniques to articulate the definitions and exploitations of freedom.
Art
The Elusive Residue of Memory in Hazy Prints
“These prints are perhaps my surrender to Shadow,” writes New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic.
Art
Memorializing Blackdom, New Mexico’s First All-Black Town
At the New Mexico State University Museum, performers mine the history of this town that was founded around 1903.
Art
Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art
The debut exhibition at New Mexico State University explores the nuances of labor — in birth, in childrearing, and in intergenerational collaboration.
Comics
Tracing the Life of New Age Painter Agnes Pelton
Agnes Pelton was a lifelong seeker whose matriarchal, artistic household set her aesthetic course.
Comics
Artists Return to New Age Strategies for Empowerment
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.
Comics
Animal Bones as an Artistic Medium
For the grand reopening of New Capital, a well-loved art space that's been closed for two years, Chicago-based artist Rebecca Beachy has installed a wide-ranging bone collection.
Comics
Tracing a Path from Hard-Edge Painting to the Science of Flight
A review of Jacob Hashimoto's solo exhibition In the Cosmic Fugue in comics form.