Art
Arshile Gorky’s Heretical Abstractions
Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes offers an in-depth exposure to the artist’s personal flowering after spending years at the altar of Cézanne and Picasso
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Interview
Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum
An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.
Art
Watch the Artist Who’s Living in a Storefront on the Lower East Side
Brooklyn street artist RAE is spending 24 hours a day, seven days a week, living and working inside the storefront.
News
Last-Minute Appeal Tries to Halt Berkshire Museum Art Auction [UPDATED]
On Friday, the AG's office filed an appeal seeking a last-minute injunction to stop Monday's auction of works from the Berkshire Museum collection at Sotheby's.
Art
From Plant to Page, a Conservatory Grows Trees to Turn into Handmade Paper
Cleveland's Morgan Conservatory is one of the few places in the US dedicated to conserving paper-making traditions and considering the material's artistic and functional future.
Art
Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Cranks It Up After Renovation
The Museum closed for nearly three years to work on developing visitor experience and adding a contemporary dimension to its more extensive classical holdings.
History
Revisiting MoMA's Controversial 1940 Italian Renaissance Blockbuster
In 1940, a landmark Italian Renaissance exhibition made a stop at the Museum of Modern Art, leading visitors to question its commitment to the contemporary.
In Brief
Nominees Denounce Germany's Biggest Art Prize
Sol Calero, Iman Issa, Jumana Manna, and Agnieszka Polska expressed their frustrations with the Preis der Nationalgalerie in a joint statement.
Art
What the Artist Campaign School Taught Me About Running for Public Office
The inaugural Artist Campaign School taught us that entering politics as a participant means we must — to some degree — acknowledge the usefulness and necessity of political power, and make peace with using it.
Interview
From Friendship to Marriage, a 30-Year Dialogue Between Two Photographers
Slant Rhymes, a new collaborative book by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, amounts to a “long, elliptical, unfinished love poem.”
Books
A Comics Artist’s Eerie, Relentlessly Stark Storytelling
I'm Not Here, written under a pseudonym, uneasily follows an immigrant family as they go about their everyday life.
History
Thousands of Objects Tell of Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence Across the Centuries
Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library at Harvard's Houghton Library explores the human desire to escape the ordinary.