Laila Pedro is a writer and scholar based in New York. She holds a PhD in French from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is currently at work on a book tracing artistic connections between Cuba, France, and the Francophone Caribbean.
Opinion
I’ve studied dance nearly my whole life. I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent. More often than not, the new documentary reveals how little dance is understood, and the pitfalls of trying to represent it.
News
The painting will feature in the museum's One Basquiat exhibition, January 26–March 11.
Art
Through rituals, recipes, artworks, and film, remembering and reclaiming the past and the present.
News
Under a new policy, prisoner access to books, warm clothing, and healthy food (among other things) will be severely restricted.
Opinion
Trying to label the border wall prototypes as Land Art (and Trump and the American people as engaged in a collaborative artwork) artist Christoph Büchel raises some unpleasant questions.
Art
To conclude her exhibition Speculative Fetish, Faith Holland curates an evening of GIFs by over 35 artists.
Art
Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson's rituals tuning in to the sun.
In Brief
The French government has declared the original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious novel a national treasure and forbidden its removal from France.
Art
The final event in the Hirshhorn Museum's Ai Weiwei series will discuss the challenges and necessity of art making amid political turmoil.
Art
Whoop Dee Doo's installation at the Knockdown Center will conclude in a high-energy, community-driven performance.
Art
A night of astrology, tarot, community, and Leonardo da Vinci at MoMA.
Art
Léger's sophisticated, imaginative examinations of the machine aesthetic coincided with one of history's most fraught technological periods.