Covered in wood paneling and filled with wacky Surrealist art, the former home of Sonja Alaimo captures the late painter’s sensitivities.
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Ukrainians Demand Their Place in Art History
No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as “Russian”?
What to See in San Francisco’s Art Week
Shows not to be missed during the Bay Area’s mid-January flurry of art activity.
Looking Beyond the “Brotherhood” of the Pre-Raphaelites
Concurrent shows at the Delaware Art Museum highlight overlooked aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art and tread beyond typical gender hierarchies.
At the Japanese American National Museum, a Book Becomes a Monument
Internment camp survivors and their descendants are invited to stamp Ireichō, a book that represents the first definitive count of those incarcerated.
Juan Fuentes’s Lexicon of Longing
Born in Mexico and raised in Denver, the artist has never been able to visit his family on the other side of the border.
Architected Futures and Reimagined Pasts
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez’s artistic collaborations center experiences of gender, queerness, and race.
Historical Revisionism Gets Mischievous in Chicago
Two solo shows in Chicago are must-sees for anyone who cares about feminism and how it intersects with modernist architecture, urban planning, and design.
Girls, Gods, and Rabbits
Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds.
Hank Willis Thomas Memorializes MLK and Coretta Scott King’s Love
The sculptural tribute was installed in a Boston park, the city where the couple first met.
Required Reading
This week, aliens might be closer than we thought, the Orange County Museum of Art is not ok, Harvard is a mess, how casteism is hurting representation in the sciences, and much more.
Cara Romero Stands Defiant Against Institutional Categorization
The artist’s photographs shine a light on the unseen, resisting colonial categorization and institutional biases around art made by Native artists.