Art

A MoMA Series Explores the “Dark Corners of the Female Experience” Through Indie Films

Contemporary films by women filmmakers go on view at the MoMA, with must-see screenings and discussions all week long in this new seasonal series.

Film

A Chance to Revisit Barbara Loden’s Only Feature Film, Considered a Feminist Masterpiece

While Loden initially went unnoticed, today she is seen as an unsung auteur whose promise was tragically cut short by her death from breast cancer in 1980.

Art

Expanding Our Definitions of Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality

The one-night performance event Ain't I A Womxn? will take place in the newly redesigned Los Angeles State Historic Park.

News

Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N. Sackler Protest the Opioid Crisis at Harvard's Sackler Museum

The photographer, along with health activists and Harvard medical students, organized a die-in in the atrium outside the Arthur M. Sackler Museum in Cambridge, MA.

Art

Yale Photography MFAs Smash the Thin Border Between Fiction and Reality

While shows like this one make the Yale-to-Chelsea pipeline seem all the more real, these artists have some serious skills.

News

Flag Art Is Censored at Kansas University, Warhol Foundation Weighs In [UPDATE 2]

Josephine Meckseper's flag was created precisely to comment on the vast canyon of political division in the United States, but it may soon split the state of Kansas across party lines.

Art

A Festival of North African Contemporary Art During an Age of Anxiety

The 5th edition of Jaou Tunis at the Kamel Lazaar Foundation brings together the works of various North African artists in a beautiful and oftentimes political display.

In Brief

In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas

What's stranger is that the two artists are both represented by Lehmann Maupin and listed side-by-side on the gallery's online roster.

Art

A Deep Dive into the Library of Congress Photo Archives, from Harriet Tubman to Architectural Hats

An exhibition of photographs in the collection of the Library of Congress celebrates "the humanistic and funny part of America."

Art

How to Talk About Whiteness

The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to “make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable,” to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.

Art

An Independent Print Shop Finds Ways to Connect Artists to Detroit’s Nonprofits

Six Detroit artists were paired with these community-minded nonprofits to produce attractive prints available for supporters.

Art

Bay Area Counterculture Is Still Alive at the San Francisco Art Book Fair

Vendors embraced the idea of San Francisco, the capital of all things counter-culture, whose art scene is still notable for being idiosyncratic and truly weird.