Music
Janelle Monáe's Political Sex
Monáe’s Dirty Computer is an ambitious, politically outspoken, all-encompassing pop-R&B statement album.
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Art
Filling Art History’s Feminist Gaps
The testimonies of Navjot Altaf and Judy Chicago speak to silence, as truth does to power.
Art
A Rescue Mission for Venezuelan Modernism
A number of significant Venezuelan artists, whose work is focused on improvisational methods and art’s material nature, are virtually unknown in the US.
Art
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Where is my precious wall?
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Fred Tomaselli
“There is an outer world of violent chaos, and an inside world that is the paradise of being an artist.”
Art
Photographing the Women of British Art
Mayotte Magnus’s Illuminating Women features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors, and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the Feminist movement of the 1970s.
Art
Elise Siegel and Her Inscrutable Heads
Siegel’s sculptures recall the great screen actors whose faces projected profound and precise shifts of feeling.
News
How Teaching Artists Configure Into the Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike
The work of arts providers has been put on hold as district and union leadership continue to negotiate around teacher demands for smaller class sizes, more support staff, less standardized testing, and higher pay.
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Zimbabwe Biennial Postponed Following Government’s Violent Response to Protests
Artist and curator Sithabile Mlotshwa says she founded Zimbabwe's Bulawayo Biennial to contribute to the "great need" for platforms that represent African artists.
Art
The Blingiest Belt Buckles Awarded at the National Western Stock Show
Most competitors this year chose their earliest acquisition or one of sentimental value.
Art
Being Gay Under Trump
Ron Amato’s exhibition Gay in Trumpland explores the dark fear many gay men are internalizing as President Trump and his inner circle remove rights and protections for LGBTQ individuals.
Books
Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.