News
Protest Performance Pressures Royal Shakespeare Company to End BP Sponsorship
Members of BP or not BP? and other collectives staged the "Fossil Free Mischief Festival" in front and in the lobby of the RSC's Stratford-upon-Avon theater.
Latest
Art
A Critical Piece of Advice Robert De Niro, Sr. Gave Me About Art
Robert De Niro senior’s sage advice, which he gave me in the late 1970s, has stayed with me, although I remember finding it intensely challenging when first offered.
In Brief
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Return to the Louvre in New Music Video, Picking the Greatest Hits
But the pop music royals stick to the museum's main attractions in "Apeshit."
Comics
Figuring Out an Artist's Wants and Needs
What happens when they don't overlap?
Art
Curators Test Ties Between Science, Art, and The Colonial Imagination
An ongoing investigation into the impact of 19th century botanical adventurers on culture shapes questions posed in an exhibition in a now defunct Veterinarian College.
Art
The Mississippi Museum of Art Confronts the State’s Painful History
The institution recently opened Picturing Mississippi, which presents a journey through the state's charged history sprinkled with salient contemporary art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
Books
Ted Greenwald's Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth
Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.
Art
An Artist Who Turns Detritus into Talismans
Nicola Ginzel’s choice of found materials speaks to a society in which disposability is a commonplace, deeply ingrained mechanism.
Art
Surprises from Wayne Thiebaud, Master Draftsman
Thiebaud, just a few months shy of his 98th birthday, offers a glimpse into the thinking behind his five decades of work.
Art
Bibimbap, Burgers, and Human Kimchi
Please pass the Nobel Peace Prize.
Art
The Art Object as Institutional Critique
The artists in Décor urge viewers to question the creator’s role in the management and presentation of art.