Art
Revisiting the Profound Joy and Pain of Girlhood
Life in My Pocket is a simulacrum of Diamond Stingily's childhood: chain-link fences, a weathered basketball hoop, and looped telephone cords — perfect for jumping rope.
Monica Uszerowicz
Art
The Social Consciousness of Sid Grossman, a Photographer of the People
Sid Grossman met his subjects where they were, documenting them reverentially and purposefully.
News
The National Gallery Lets You Sleep with a Masterpiece, For a Price
Museums are finding new ways to make money but the National Gallery decided they wanted to sleep on it.
Art
Paintings that Ponder Death and Teem with Life
The Cuban artist Carlos Alfonzo had always contemplated the complexities of life and its end, even before he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990.
Art
Mining the Myths and Mysteries of Poison Over the Centuries
An exhibition takes an immersive, highly interactive look at poison as medicine, killer, and literary device.
Art
The Polychromatic Postcolonial Churches of Southern India Shine
The churches of South India are unlike others around the world for their colorful graphic designs.
News
Unfinished Bauhaus Typefaces Are Now at Your Fingertips
Adobe and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation teamed up to turn fragments of five unfinished typeface designs from the 1920s and '30s into full-fledged digital typefaces.
Art
The Painterly Brilliance of South Florida's Foliage
The 12 landscapes in The Magic Hour are limned with reverence, but there’s also the microscopic gaze of someone as curious as he is mystified.
Books
Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair
The artist's collages feature portraits of women cut from advertisements, their tresses painted and collaged into pools of color that spread onto the page like oil spills.
Art
The Illusion of Infinity and Our Quest for Perfection
Mirrored pyramids reveal that the perfect — or the idea of the infinite — exists only in the imagination.
Film
Four Artists on How Motherhood Impacted Their Lives and Careers
A KCET documentary looks at artists who have made motherhood a part of their careers, even as they have navigated the difficulties of the art world.
Art
Tilling the Scars of Turtle Island and Its History
Scorched Earth, a group exhibition at Current Projects in Miami, considers the stories contained within the soil.