Art
Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics
The works in Figuring the Floral start a conversation, collaborate, and even merge with the natural beauty of the public garden and cultural center Wave Hill.
Ilana Novick
Books
An Art Forgery Thriller With Many Narrators but Not Enough Answers
Author Clare Clark's In the Full Light of the Sun raises important questions about the lengths we go to distract ourselves from governmental horrors, and how art can’t save us, but it doesn't manage to find easy answers.
Books
A Captivating Biography Chronicles the Important Life and Work of Judy Chicago
Levin conducted 250 interviews with Chicago and her friends, family, colleagues, admirers, and critics, and had access to Chicago’s diaries and letters.
News
"The Institution Should Not Be Safe As Long As We Are Not Safe": A Third Week of Protests at the Whitney
One activist called the protest an opportunity for museumgoers to consider "the role that our cultural institutions play in our everyday decisions and choices, and the effect that that has.”
Art
A First-Timer Approaches the ADAA Fair Like a Buffet
Dead Birds and haunting collages are among the many gems at the 2019 Art Dealers Association of America Art fair.
Art
Martha Rosler’s Wicked and Welcome Sense of Humor
Rosler is not expecting art to end wars or change policy, but she wants to make the viewer pay attention to both in the first place.
News
Activists Protest at Whitney Museum, Demanding Vice Chairman and Owner of Tear Gas Manufacturer “Must Go”
Members and supporters of activist group Decolonize This Place emphasized that Warren Kanders is only a symptom of a larger problem.
Art
Hip-Hop’s Love of Remix Is Influencing Architecture
The upside of an exhibition about hip-hop architecture, a movement in its infancy, is that it’s hard to pigeonhole. But it’s also hard to determine what visually brings all the works together.
News
Unionized Art Installers and Maintenance Crew Protest Low Wages at MoMA PS1
Local 30 union members gathered at the entrance of MoMA PS1 in Queens after “strained" contract renegotiations. Workers say they are paid significantly less than their counterparts at MoMA in Manhattan.
Art
Taking Apart the War Machine to See What's Inside
By centering the actual machinery of war, Mary Mattingly's exhibition, What Happens After, pushes viewers who haven’t experienced war to consider what it must be like.
News
Museum of Modern Art Staff Protest Outside Fundraising Gala, Demanding a Fair Contract
About 100 MoMA workers and their supporters rallied outside the Museum as donors and trustees arrived to draw attention to ongoing contract negotiations that are currently at an impasse.
News
Protesters Warn of Luxury High Rises Threatening Brooklyn Botanic Garden [UPDATED]
At a rally on Mother's Day, anti-gentrification groups warned that planned high-rise residential towers will not only displace longtime local residents but pose a threat to the Garden's plant collection.