This month: Dan Levenson, Rachel Martin, Sonia Romero, responses to the Feminist Art Program of the 1970s, and more.
Art
Remedios Varo’s Strange and Mysterious Universes
“In Varo’s work there is often a sense of geographic travel, but also a sense of traveling down material pathways that no one has ever looked at before,” says curator Caitlin Haskell.
The Trailblazing History of an Indigenous Art Collective
Launched in 1962, the Micmac Indian Craftsmen collective designed notecards, tapestries, porcelain, and other objects that gained a worldwide audience.
An Artist’s Mesmerizing Miniatures of Tokyo Buildings
Nordström creates compelling architectural “portraits” of the city by including the real stuff of life, like electric boxes, water damage, and rusting metalwork.
15 Art Shows to See in New York This October
This month: Henry Taylor, Barkley L. Hendricks, Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor, Cecilia Paredes, and more.
The Made in LA Biennial Is All About Diaspora
The 39 artists and collectives in the sixth edition of the Hammer Museum’s show call LA home but make visible legacies of migration that have built and shaped the city.
The Filipino-American Friends Who Forged New Artistic Paths
Once Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor recognized that they could never fully assimilate into mainstream America, they set out on their own paths.
10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall
This season, speculative futures and collective histories with Faith Ringgold, Candace Hunter, Carlos Cortéz, Remedios Varo, and others.
The Rise and Fall of American Glass
Amber Cowan’s entrancing sculptures share the spotlight with antique objects, illuminating the history and enduring possibilities of American glass art.
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall
Betye Saar, Barbara T. Smith, Teddy Sandoval, emerging talents, and much more.
Two Native Artists Want to Reclaim Their Landscapes and Textiles
Steven J. Yazzie and Patrick Dean Hubbell dismantle blatant distillations of Native visuality for profit that continue to commit and perpetrate harm against Indigenous artists and communities.
Required Reading
This week, satellite images capture lines of cars carrying Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, an Ethiopian painting looted by the British Museum, digitizing Urdu script, and much more.