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.
In Brief
A petition calling on the Met to remove a painting by Balthus from its walls for its troublingly sexualized depiction of a young girl has gained over 8,000 signatures.
Art
Bring your discarded sewing, or the sewing you never started, or the sewing you wish you knew how to do, for a day of personal and community mending.
Art
Carlos Martiel continues his gripping, often devastating explorations of bodies marked by history, culture, and place with a performance at Y Gallery.
In Brief
A Kerry James Marshall work originally donated to a museum's benefit auction sold at Christie's for a record-setting price.
Art
Jessica Vaughn's show of restrained conceptual works subtly evokes the experiential dimension of mass-produced objects.
In Brief
Confirmation that, yes, artists are still flocking to Brooklyn.
Art
The painting's seller is part of the clique of billionaire oligarchs exerting an outsize influence in global affairs — and art.
Art
The Illuminator returns to downtown Manhattan, projecting short video clips by 60 artists in "an act of community and solidarity."
Art
Choreographer Gillian Walsh takes on dance as a "suicidal tendency" and considers mysticism in a time of global crisis.
Art
Five artists and writers will take on the racist narratives that shape American culture in a day of events at MoMA PS1.
Art
In sculpture and collage, Newsome explores agency, feminism, and what we think we're looking at.
Art
The polymathic collective presents a hybrid lecture-performance based on the work of Edward Said.