Art
The Bewildering Lexicon of Robert Gober
Is Gober taking stock and summing up his life at his latest exhibition at Matthew Marks? If so, he sure is breaking new ground while at it.
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Cashing In on Your White Privilege Tax Deduction
In honor of Tax Day, we asked a black cartoonist to design his own tax form.
Announcement
SVA's Summer 2018 Continuing Education Courses Begin June 4
From one-day workshops to semester-long courses, take the opportunity to immerse yourself and be inspired.
Art
An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.
Art
The Japanese-American Painter Who Chronicled Early 20th-Century Life in the US
Chiura Obata's stirring paintings invite us to consider the representation of persecution and distress from the point of view of an immigrant in the early 20th century.
Comics
No Amount of Compliments Can Outweigh the Artist's Self-Doubt
Being congratulated and told your work is "great" just makes it worse!
Art
A Botanic Garden Invited Artists to Transform Centuries-Old Trees Felled by a Storm
After dozens of trees — some as old as 250 years — came down in Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Gardens last October, woodcarvers gave them new life.
Art
How Oaxacan Expats in California Have Kept an Ancient Ball Game Alive
Discover the origins of pelota mixteca, or Mixtec-style ball, and its role in maintaining cultural links across borders.
News
Solange Unveils Performance Art Piece at the Hammer Museum
The performance was staged on a LeWittian large-scale sculpture by Solange that will travel around the US this summer.
Announcement
Hank Willis Thomas "Unbrands” Advertising Culture at the Block Museum of Art
Thomas appropriates images drawn from advertising campaigns to investigate the subtle and not so subtle ways in which ads reinforce ideas about race and race relations.
Art
Unearthing Centuries of Interdependence Between Humans and Plants
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World explores how humans have historically understood the plant world, and how we ought to reconsider it as we degrade the planet.
Art
Whale Paintings Evoke the Giant Mammals' Suffering and Scarring
Juliette Dumas's large-scale paintings of whales' flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.