Art
Classic Calligraphy Meets Contemporary Gesture at The Met
Tong Yang-Tze’s “Dialogue” (2024) in the museum’s Great Hall engages with the ancient art form on a monumental level.
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Art
A Williamsburg Family Reunion at Pierogi Gallery’s 30th Anniversary Opening
More than 80 artists spanning the gallery’s history contributed work — and some were present for the celebration.
Comics
NYC Housing Stories: Miguel Robles-Durán and “Jerzy”
Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part five of a series.
Art
The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art
In today’s algorithm-driven world what has become of embodied eroticism, of desire, of seeking and celebrating beauty, of intimate vulnerability, or vulnerable intimacy?
Art
Required Reading
This week: The Indigenous woman in Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, Brutalist speakers, a new mural in SF, horses as healers, and can we really speak to animals?
Community
A View From the Easel
“My day begins softly.”
News
How Affordable Are New York City Museum Cafes?
The Met’s cafe is sad with stunning views, while the Queens Museum’s takes the cake for the lowest overall prices.
Art
Affordable Los Angeles Art to Shop This Holiday Season
These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.
Satire
Long-Lost Thanksgiving Recipes of American Artists Discovered
From Georgia O’Keeffe’s suggestive cabbage to Andrew Wyeth’s cornbread of the everyman, the findings represent a treasure of art and culinary history.
Satire
An Unintellectual Theory of Tastiness in Art History
No Vanitas paintings, no parables, no metaphors — just pigging out.
Satire
Which Artist’s Pie Takes the Cake?
After a tense week of competition and a food fight among the Surrealists, which contestants will advance to the next round of the Great Artists’ Bake Off?
Satire
World’s Greatest Masher Gets Retrospective of His Lifetime of Inaccessible Work
Mashed potato artist Chât G’ptein is the darling of a new class of crypto-billionaire art collectors.