Art
Looking Back on the Golden Age of Fashion Illustration with Jim Howard
A showcase of Howard's work from the 1960s through the '80s illustrates major shifts in consumer behavior and records an art career that no longer exists today.
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Books
Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles
Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the '60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a submerged sculpture in the Maldives, the anonymous angel to female artists, Belgrade as the capital of stolen art, examining the inaugural Yeditepe Biennial in Istanbul, and more.
Music
Alternative Rock Gets a Reboot
Trading in activism, self-awareness, and intimacy, four alternative guitar-rock albums manage to revitalize familiar forms.
Art
Artists Update Bygone Myths
Even as Pollock was eliminating mythology in his work, younger artists born in the 1920s were finding ways to make it fresh.
Art
Upending Conventions with Figurative Painting
The works of painters Angela Dufresne and Louis Fratino are far more radical than anything some conceptual artists have recently received attention for.
Art
Monstrous Mutations (Part 2): From the Fascist State to Radical Hospitality
It wasn’t “just a jacket.”
Art
The Art of a Fired Cartoonist
What if we interpret Rob Rogers’s wild art cartoons as if they were conventional subjects for art writing?
Art
Harnessing the Revelatory Power of Masks
For almost 20 years, Gauri Gill has documented the lives of nomads, peasants, tribals, migrants, and other marginalized communities of rural India.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Alfredo Gisholt
“I look at where things accumulate, where people leave things. Every house has a corner like that.”
Art
Brooklyn's Soldier Angel Inspires a Monument to Resistance
“Persistent Resistance” consists of a central speckled, decorative column that looks like a Rorschach ink blot that’s been stretched into a pillar.
News
New Yorkers Booked 9,500 Free Museum Tickets in Four Days, New Passes Arrive August 1
In the four days since it launched, the new Culture Pass NYC program helped New Yorkers book over 9,500 reservations for 33 museums and cultural institutions across the five boroughs.