Art

How Do Artists Get Into the Whitney Biennial?

I made a spreadsheet to find out what the participants in the Whitney Biennial have in common.

Podcast

Discussing the Future of Design and Tech with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at MoMA

Antonelli shares her thoughts on the world of tech, design, and the work of a beloved arts organization that is celebrating 20 years, Eyebeam.

Art

Queer Artists in Their Own Words: LaWhore Vagistan Is Your Favorite South Asian Drag Auntie and Academic

LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.

Art

Paradise Lost: Paul Davies's Fictive California

The painter's depiction of breezy palm trees and picturesque mountain ranges contain eccentric, discordant details.

Art

The Ideas Hidden in One Artist's Embroidery

Elaine Reichek uses hand-embroidery to emulate the handwriting of authors whose ideas she makes her own.

Art

A Silver Exhibition's Classist Undertones

Despite the artistry on display in this Gorham Silver exhibition, I found it difficult to suppress a kernel of class hatred in looking at it.

Art

The Bold, Blessed Paintings of a Sharecropper’s Daughter

An exhibition showcases the graphically powerful work of Mary T. Smith — a self-taught artist from Mississippi — in a rare, in-depth survey.

Art

A History of Writing, from Hieroglyphs to Squiggles

An exhibition at the British Library powerfully delves into the personal and political complexities of writing, driving home that it's not only one of humanity’s greatest inventions, but born out of the strongest human motivations.

Art

Probing the Proper Grounds for Criticism in the Wake of the 2019 Whitney Biennial

In the wake of numerous critiques regarding the lack of perceived “radicality” in the Whitney Biennial, a critic analyzes the implications of artist Simone Leigh’s response.

In Brief

Security Guards at Seattle's Frye Art Museum Have Unionized [UPDATED]

Workers have partnered with city officials who are calling on the museum's management to voluntarily recognize their union.

In Brief

Facebook's Possible Skyscraper Inaugurates the "Penn15" Club

New architectural renderings for Facebook's offices at 15 Penn Plaza have an absurd name, but the real joke is that the company has already committed to leasing another building at One Madison Avenue.

Film

How a '70s Anthropological Experiment Turned into the "Sex Raft"

In Marcus Lindeen's documentary The Raft, the subjects of the disastrous study reenact its strange events.