Art
LGBTQ Tours Offer a New Way of Looking at an Old Museum
At the Victoria & Albert Museum, LGBTQ tours offer a queer history of the museum's collections.
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Interview
Rethinking the Archive of Black Visual Culture with Deborah Willis
The photographer, curator, and academic founded the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU to animate conversations about the archive of African American imagery from the 19th century to today.
News
Why the Victoria & Albert Museum Is Expanding to East London and Beyond
The financial logic behind the British institution's massive expansion project from east London to Scotland is certainly ambitious, but is it sound?
Books
Revisiting Emily Vanderpoel’s Color Theory Book 117 Years After Its First Release
In addition to being a watercolorist, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel was also the author of Color Problems, widely overlooked, yet staggering turn-of-the-century book on color theory.
Comics
Learning to Hunt this Election Season
As the country devolves into just the place my 94-year-old Jewish grandma has warned me about for years, a few Saturdays ago I found myself spending a day staring at this man, Marcel.
Art
Required Reading
This week, debating fascists, Orhan Pamuk on photographer Ara Guler, an alternative history of Silicon Valley “disruption,” Syrian voices are left largely unheard, dressing up as Michelle Obama, and more.
Art
Tal R's Playfully Skewed Art History
Tal R reminds us that what’s painted is inherently fiction, that the world of a painting is a reality unto itself.
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The Painter of Everyday Life
Stanley Lewis finds a way to step aside and let the world become paint.
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Reconsidering Identity in Art
This is the kind of group exhibition that rarely happens in New York — a gathering of artists from different countries, cultures, generations, and aesthetic approaches focused on the construction of identity.
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The Momentum of This Moment
The abuse will go on forever, unless we stop it.
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René Magritte’s Bad Paintings
When Belgium was occupied by Germany during World War II, René Magritte adopted the style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and painted images based on popular cartoons.
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The Transcendent Spirit of Haitian Contemporary Art
PÒTOPRENS is an exhibition about Haitian artists that rebels against stereotypes of Haitian art.