Features
Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum
The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it came to be.
Greta Rainbow
Greta Rainbow is a research editor and culture writer living in New York. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New York Magazine, among others.
Features
A Tour Inside the NY Botanical Garden’s Trippy Orchid Show
Classic city scenes become floral fantasies in this year’s pop-timistic iteration of the park’s iconic annual show.
Guide
Your Guide to a Sexy, Artsy, Non-Boring Valentine’s Day in NYC
A Brooklyn zine fair, an exhibition on sex and cults, and other activities to spend the day with your lover, your polycule, or just yourself.
Book Review
The Contemporary Relevance of Palestinian Tatreez
“When people wear Palestinian embroidery, it’s not just decorative. It's beautiful, of course, but it is saying something,” says author Joanna Barakat.
Features
The Messy Family Drama of Ancient Egyptian Gods
We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.
News
TEFAF New York Is a Cabinet of Curiosities
From lesser-known Meret Oppenheim works to Anna Weyant’s jewel-box paintings, this over-the-top New York fair is rich with gems waiting to be discovered.
Art
The Intimate Vignettes of the New Jersey Arts Annual
The works in the exhibition take us far away, as if to suggest that our complicated lineages are a point on which we connect.
Art
Native Art Collection Gets a Much-Needed Rehang at Montclair Art Museum
In Interwoven Power, the museum achieves a sorely needed curatorial feat: an institutional display of Indigenous art that courses with vitality.
Film
No Other Land Magnifies the Horrors of Occupation
Made by a team of Palestinian and Israeli activists, this film implores us to feel the effects of the war.
Books
Challenging the Visual Story of Mass Incarceration
With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics.
Art
The Forgotten Islands Surrounding New York City
Photographer Phil Buehler’s fascination with the landforms started with a canoe trip to then-abandoned Ellis Island at the age of 17.
Art
Documenting Ridgewood's Abandoned Tree Beds
Alexa Hoyer captures the remnants of tree trunks in the Queens neighborhood in accidentally artistic tableaux.