Art
An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of Her Sisters
Rema Ghuloum's life-affirming response to this loss has been to make paintings whose direct and unapologetic pursuit of beauty feels rare.
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Revisiting Postwar Honeymoon Resorts, “the Greatest Theme Parks of Heterosexuality”
Since the 1950s, the Poconos’ kitschy honeymoon resorts have held up a funhouse mirror to American attitudes toward sexuality.
News
Artists and Activists Prepare Political Responses to Whitney Biennial
Artist Michael Rakowitz has withdrawn, Forensic Architecture announced plans to respond to the museum's political controversy in its commissioned work, and Decolonize This Place revealed a 9-week calendar leading up to the biennial.
Art
The Radical, Gender-Bending Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger
In the German artist and filmmaker's work from the '70s and '80s, Glinda the Good Witch becomes a bearded queen in a shopping mall, and that's just the beginning.
Announcement
Lilla LoCurto & Bill Outcault on View at the Neuberger Museum Beginning March 27
On view at the Neuberger Museum of Art – Pioneering art that addresses machine intelligence and the social role of the human body.
Art
Languages as Bridge in the Work of Siah Armajani
Born in Tehran and having made his home in Minneapolis, historical and familial references abound in this artist's body of work that draws in equal measure from the arts and the sciences.
Books
Jaw-Dropping Books in the Making, from Illustrated Fairytales to Limited Edition Poetry
There are some eye-popping books in Kickstarter's Exquisite Objects initiative.
Art
Challenging the Trope of the “Woman in the Window”
A project places video art by six women of color in the windows of galleries and arts organizations in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
In Brief
US Postal Service Releases Vibrant Ellsworth Kelly Stamp Collection
The stamps feature tiny reproductions of ten paintings by Kelly, one of America's great 20th-century abstractionists.
Art
Be a Spy for the Day at the KGB Spy Museum
Perhaps the whole museum is an elaborate campaign to recruit people with an abiding interest in the KGB, for dissemination of digital weapons and fake news.
Books
A Brief History of the Books Depicted in Western Painting
The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint explores centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts through more than 150 paintings.
Art
An Artist Illuminates Our Need to be Seen and Recognized
The indispensability of recognition is simultaneously made both more urgent and more complicated when you realize, as Yelaine Rodriguez does, that we are mutable, never sufficing to be just one person.