Art
Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
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Art
Mondrian Before Abstraction
Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.
Art
Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair
With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.
Art
What the New York Art World Is Missing
What is striking about Jiha Moon’s work is that it does not quite fit into the New York art world’s current concerns with racial and ethnic identity because, as far as I can tell, this art world has never addressed issues of Asian cultural dislocation.
News
Governor Cuomo’s Bizarre Poster Illustrates His Vision of New York State in 2020
A new image, conceived by the New York State Governor, is a mess.
Books
A Musician’s Fictional, Indistinct Futures Take the Shape of a Novel
Leaning into the imaginative possibility of text, Félicia Atkinson’s A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback grafts a poetic, discursive dialogue that fills in the detailed sonic worlds of her recent album.
Art
How Does a Black Man Fit Into an Edward Hopper Painting?
The Edward Hopper and the American Hotel exhibition invites some visitors to spend the night in a room inspired by one of Hopper's paintings, and our critic ponders who it's really designed for.
Art
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
Announcement
Stamps Gallery Presents: Taking a Stand
Bringing together lively and energetic work, Taking a Stand (Jan 17-Feb 29) highlights the ways in which artists build solidarity and shape contemporary culture as active participants in our society.
In Brief
How the Legal System Left Artist Purvis Young's Beneficiaries Empty-Handed
Young left nearly 2,000 works of art to his close friend and her family. An article in the Washington Post Magazine explains how, after Young’s death, a group of lawyers kept the works instead.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Art
Volunteering With a Land Artist to Make Laborious, Ethereal "Snow Drawings"
The impermanence of Simon Beck's land art, which cuts beautiful and massive patterns into fresh snowfall, made the experience all the more gratifying.