Film Review
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
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Art Review
Take a Trip Down the Catwalk With Andy Warhol
With fashion-themed art from the 1950s and ’60s, Andy Warhol: Fashion feels like a private, over-the-shoulder glimpse of Warhol at work.
News
Modigliani's Jean Cocteau Portrait Heads to Brooklyn Museum in Major Gift
Along with MoMA and LACMA, the New York museum will receive dozens of works from the Pearlman Collection.
Opinion
I Lost My Job at the Whitney, but the Art Community Lost Much More
The museum suspended its Independent Study Program, a space of collective thought and political solidarity, during a time when it is most needed.
News
Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
News
Can Steve Martin Help Bring Visitors to the Frick Collection?
The art collector and Pink Panther actor prances around the museum’s freshly renovated Gilded Age mansion in a new video.
Art Review
Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
Art Review
Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
The artist mines archives of conquest and imperialism in her native Turkey to produce multifaceted displays that entangle violent histories with personal narratives.
News
$200M Trump Ballroom Proposal Looks a Lot Like Versailles
Social media users couldn’t help but notice similarities between the lavish project, led by architect James McCrery, and the palace of a certain ill-fated French monarch.
Feature
How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?
Through interviews with survivors and satellite imagery, data journalist Mona Chalabi and SITU Research created models of razed houses in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria.
News
Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment Reference
The institution said that “a future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments,” but the timing of the alteration has raised questions.
Opinion
Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics
By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.