Guide
New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now
Histories are at the heart of some of our favorite shows, from queer video art to the cultural and familial traditions invoked by Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton.
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Art Review
Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown
Thomas Holton photographed the Lam family for two decades, drawing attention not only to where but also how they live.
Feature
Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.
News
Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts
Among the structures destroyed was a building housing the Creativity Center, where community members learned to sew, bead, and make traditional patchwork.
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Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting
Wesley LePatner, who was elected to The Met’s board this year, was fatally shot by a gunman in Blackstone’s Park Avenue headquarters.
Feature
A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston
An exhibition features over 300 drawings by the late artist, whose maximalist creative output was his main form of resistance against his mental demons.
Art Review
The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism
An exhibition centers efforts in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s to chart an ongoing struggle for liberation.
News
Robert Rauschenberg's Centenary Gets Major Guggenheim Show
One of several global events marking the late American artist’s centenary, Life Can’t Be Stopped will reunite over a dozen artworks at the Manhattan institution.
Art Review
Memory Becomes Form in the Art of Candida Alvarez
Abstraction and representation bleed into one another in the same way that memories momentarily coagulate into images before dissolving again.
Art Review
A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.
Feature
BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World
A documentary filmed in Gaza, the story of a teenager afraid of getting "cancelled," and a biography of Black writer and activist Toni Cade Bambara are among this year’s highlights.
Book Review
How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.