Guide
10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This February
The exhibition-as-memoir of Linda Griggs, a group show as history lesson, Odili Donald Odita’s vibrant abstractions, and more.
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The Story of Enslaved and Free Texas Potters, Told Sherd-by-Sherd
There is more to the history of H. Wilson and Co. Pottery and related sites than folklore holds.
Art
Prem Sahib Captures the Unruly Aesthetics of Desire
Sahib brings his minimalist aesthetic to the maximalism of fetish bars and nightclubs, dark spaces in which unruly bodies and complex social codes coalesce.
News
Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history.
Art
New NYC Subway Murals Challenge the Authority of Maps
At 68th Street–Hunter College station, a new trio of mosaics by professor Lisa Corinne Davis is a dizzying exploration of the art of cartography.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Celia Paul’s transportive brush, yoga-washing, the mythology of American orphanhood, one grandma’s Lunar New Year photoshoot, the science of laughter, and more.
News
Three Suspects Arrested in Connection With Dutch Museum Heist
Thieves used explosives to break into the Drents Museum and stole four ancient gold artifacts on display.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I love that I can be here with my family, we can create together, and what we create can exist side by side.”
News
Artist Graham Nickson, Who Led New York Studio School, Dies at 78
A galvanizing arts educator and accomplished painter, Nickson is also remembered for his fervent belief in the discipline of drawing.
Books
The History of Blackness Is Entwined With Blue
Manet’s portrait of Jeanne Duval reveals how racism trains us to see colors in particular and sometimes contradictory ways.
Art
One Couple’s Bold Vision for the Future of Cambodian Art
With a new museum slated to open this spring, Svay Sareth and Yim Maline of the Blue Art Center want young Cambodians to experience art as a path to freedom.
Art
Myron Stout’s Monkish Devotion to Art
Stout achieved an ascetic sensuality in his geometric abstractions, a paradoxical synthesis of restraint and hedonism that is unmatched by any of his contemporaries.