Art
The Stain on Our Flag
We thought humans had evolved.
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Art
Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College
The school's loosely structured pedagogical model allowed women to play vital roles throughout Black Mountain's brief history.
Art
Seeing Ourselves in Sculpture
Richard Nonas's sculptures alert each of us to the specificity of being — in a specific time and a specific place.
Art
Hand-Copying the Constitution and Other Responses to Trump
Oh, What a World! What a World! brings together a diverse range of artists’ reactions to the anxiety gripping the nation.
Opinion
Watching Okoumou’s Heroic Climb Up the Statue of Liberty
On the Fourth of July, Therese Patricia Okoumou climbed the Statue of Liberty to give voice to her fellow immigrants.
Art
Mining the Myths and Mysteries of Poison Over the Centuries
An exhibition takes an immersive, highly interactive look at poison as medicine, killer, and literary device.
Film
The Swiss Art Collector Who Helped Expose Chinese Contemporary Art to the World
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg traces how Sigg accumulated his massive and influential collection, a record of Chinese contemporary art of the last three decades.
Performance
Where Gayness Goes in the Angels in America Revival
The revival of Tony Kushner’s play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
Art
The Secret Lives of Discarded Things
Jean Shin: Collections is a great introduction to the artist for those who do not know her work, but encounters the pitfalls of recontextualizing public art within museum settings.
News
Joseph Beuys’s Only Public Artwork in New York Temporarily Unearthed
Last weekend, the Beuys stones were removed from their Chelsea location due to construction plans.
Art
Jack Whitten's Secret Self
For the first time, those who have followed Jack Whitten's career can see two different sides of the artist through two fully developed bodies of work designed for radically different purposes.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: two men associated with the Ghost Ship warehouse fire pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, the Guggenheim Museum restored Édouard Manet's "Woman in Striped Dress," and an exhibition of rare automata opened in the UK.