Art
Charles White’s Intimate and Dignified Portraits of Labor and Black Oppression
Charles White: A Retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art surveys an illustrious career that spans from the Great Depression to the age of Black Power.
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News
Week in Review: Tehran Museum Accused of Flipping Artwork, Art Institutions Prep for Brexit
Also, Hank Willis Thomas will design a MLK, Jr. memorial in Boston, Venice Biennale artists announced, and more.
Art
Political Art Exhibitions in Ukraine Face Attacks and Censorship
In December, a professor at the National Academy of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine damaged a student's artwork depicting the Russian army as phalluses. This follows a number of attacks on political artworks by rightwing groups across the country.
Art
Refugees Tell Their Stories Through Mementos
Jim Lommasson shows the human side of impersonal statistics with photographs of the personal belongings that immigrants brought with them.
Art
Artists Find Common Ground in Soil from Around the World
Artists around the globe are using of soil to raise awareness for environmental and social issues, employing earth as an artistic medium for reflection.
Art
The Horrors and Delights of the Surrealist Subconscious
Two exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art revel in the unique strangeness of one’s mind.
News
Getty Acquires 105 Glass Plate Holograms, Ethiopian Emperor's Locks of Hair Repatriated
Plus, Rice Public Art acquires an Ursula von Rydingsvard sculpture, and Basquiat sells at auction.
Opinion
Decolonization: an Act of Independence, Not Benevolence
It’s clear: We need space for new narratives. But how far will we get if the space-making rests in the hands of the colonizers?
News
Activists Demand MoMA Divest from Private Prisons and Weapons Manufacturers
"There is blood on this art," protesters shouted at the wealthy patrons attending a museum luncheon honoring Bank of America's CEO.
Art
Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show
Progress is incremental, and art fairs are still hellacious places to appreciate art.
Film
The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid
The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe's art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.
News
Art Movements
Lauren Halsey was awarded the 2019 Frieze Art Award, Arata Isozaki was named the 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and more.