Art

Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting

With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.

Art

Purvis Young's Unbounded Histories

Young’s works tell the stories of individuals and communities, of dreams and disillusionment, and of the abysses between life, death, and eternity.

Art

Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse

With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.

Art

Coping with Climate Change

The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.

Art

Encountering “The Fulbright Triptych”

A rare sighting of an elusive painting.

News

Activist Arrested During Protest on Subway Ride to the Whitney Museum for Protest Against Warren Kanders [UPDATED]

The protesters occupied the C subway line from East New York to Chelsea, and were confronted with large police forces at the final stop. One protester was arrested.

Announcement

The Yale Center for British Art Presents the First North American Survey of Work by Eileen Hogan

Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies examines her artistic process and feature sketchbooks alongside finished paintings. On view at the Yale Center for British Art from May 9 to August 11.

Film

A Documentary on the Birth and Growth of the Satanic Temple

Hail Satan? marks the first time that director Penny Lane filmed contemporary events as they developed, though her deftness with archival material is crucial to the story's appeal.

Community

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in California, France, Japan, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma.

Art

No One Owns Basquiat, Not Even Peter Brant

Brant has cogently influenced the legacy of Basquiat on several fronts, but the artist and his work remain gloriously defiant.

Art

A Show of Saccharine, Seductive Greeting Card Paintings Sponsored by Deep Conservatism

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Belle Epoque paintings suggest that anything can be bought as a balm against the harsh conditions and human expense required to build America.

News

A Heritage Center for Black History in Brooklyn Struggles to Remain Open

The museum, which preserves the history of one of the first free Black communities in New York, says that if a new crowdfunding campaign does not yield $200,000 before July, it will be forced to shut its doors for lack of resources.