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When Your Friend Becomes a Famous Artist
It's important to keep some perspective when your friends' careers take off.
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News
Obama Portraits Bring Record Traffic to National Portrait Gallery
On March 24 alone, the day of the March For Our Lives, 35,968 people visited the museum.
Art
Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.
Music
Four Bands on Sex, Politics, and the Weather
New albums by Rhye, Physically Sick, Toni Braxton, and Johnny Jewel share a warped relationship to their ostensible themes.
Art
Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
Art
Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
Art
Cowards, Autocrats, and Other Traitors
The stunning candor of George W. Bush’s new paintings establishes his reputation as a 21st-Century Goya, capable of uncovering the humanity in monsters.
Art
Danh Vo's Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.
Art
Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
Art
Joe Overstreet, Painter as Aesthetic Nomad
Overstreet keeps his references to his African-American heritage and Native American influences oblique.
In Brief
356 Mission Gallery, Seen by Many as a Symbol of Gentrification, Will Close
The nonprofit space, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, was the focus of anti-gentrification protests and boycotts by local activist groups.