In Brief

Human Rights Activist Arrested in Poland for Posters Featuring Virgin Mary with LGBTQ Halo

Elżbieta Podlesna's house was raided and she was charged with "offending religious sentiment" in the central Polish city of Płock.

In Brief

A Greek Island Will Get Its First Contemporary Artwork in 5,000 Years

British artist Antony Gormley is the first to present new works on the island, a UNESCO world heritage monument and important site in Greek mythology, since was inhabited.

Art

At a Frida Kahlo Show in Brooklyn, the Personal Is Commercial (and Sponsored by Revlon)

Zeitgeisty is perhaps the best word to describe the Brooklyn Museum’s popular exhibition, which takes for granted the idea that Kahlo’s artwork is merely an extension of her constructed persona.

Performance

Reenacting the Wild Art Salons of Gay Camp Icon, Paul Swan

A new play, Paul Swan is Dead and Gone, imagines the life of the late dancer, artist, and Andy Warhol muse once known as "The Most Beautiful Man in the World."

Announcement

Cornell University Presents Its 2019 MFA Exhibition, Or High Water

The exhibition will feature twelve MFA candidates and will be on view from May 10 to 17 at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn.

Art

Transforming a 20-Year Data Log of One's Life into Art

Stephen Cartwright talks about turning his personal information into abstract sculpture.

Art

A Closer Look Into the Whitney Museum's Board

The weapons manufacturer isn't the only board member with ties to war profiteering and the Trump administration at a progressive institution like the Whitney Museum.

Film

The Strong Parallels Between Avengers: Endgame and 9/11

This film is not just the culmination of 11 years of storytelling within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also of Hollywood using action films to reenact 9/11.

Art

Developing a Collective Language of Resistance Across the Centuries

It’s not often that you find a space in which communication is not only possible, but encouraged across time, discourses, and borders.

In Brief

Art Collector to Plant 299 Trees in a Stadium to Protest Inaction About Climate Change

The idea was inspired by a 1970 drawing depicting a forest entrapped in a big city soccer stadium.

Art

Willie Cole, Shinique Smith, and Abigail DeVille Discuss Found Material in African-American Art

Artists come together to discuss Nari Ward's repurposed objects as a reflection of place, culture, and identity.

Art

Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?

This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."