In Brief

Wheelchair User Criticizes Tate Modern for Inaccessibility Issues at Olafur Eliasson Exhibition

The Tate has responded, saying that the tunnel sculpture in question "cannot be made safely accessible for wheelchair users."

Art

In Garry Winogrand’s City, a Colorful Kaleidoscope Comes Alive

In Garry Winogrand's Color, color slides wink in and out of existence as images are paired in small visual novellas.

Film

A Searing, First-Person Look at the AIDS Crisis Told Through the Eyes of a Couple

The 1993 documentary Silverlake Life presents an unusual perspective on daily life with a deadly disease.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Lewis Hine's child labor images, assessing Artforum's #MeToo fallout, New York's most "toxic" museum boards, the rise of the right on YouTube, dissecting an Instragram influencer, and more.

Books

Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist?

Out of seemingly meager materials, Herriman created a complete world, a place where nothing ever changes and where his characters never develop, yet his sense of humor is almost infallible.

Art

Milena Büsch's Large Paintings Parody Consumer Culture

These deceptively decorative works critique the conventions and implied values of the classic bourgeois interior.

Art

An Artist's Maps of Imperialism and Greed

Dan Mills delves into the devastating numbers of threatened populations around the world and then converts them into chaotically beautiful cartographies.

Art

Lee Krasner’s Early Prophecies

Krasner’s teacher, Hans Hofmann, told her that her work was so good, you would have never known it was done by a woman.

Art

Finding Quality Time Through Art

With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.

Art

Roger Brown’s Innovative Still Lifes

Brown was interested in mishaps and disasters, but above all, he was interested in what it meant to be American.

Art

In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity, Part 3

Jasper Johns breaks down the image of a broken man.

In Brief

18,000 Illegally Trafficked Cultural Goods Seized in an International Crackdown

Operation Pandora III, carried out by the Spanish Civil Guard, Europol, Interpol, and the World Customs Organization, included a special focus on illicit online trafficking. 59 individuals were arrested in the operation.