Announcement

Taiwan Features Tehching Hsieh at the 2017 Venice Biennale

Taiwan’s exhibition for the 2017 Venice Biennale — Doing Time — opens at the Palazzo delle Prigioni on May 10.

Opinion

Artists Launch Initiative in Support of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

#dignitystrike aims to amplify the hunger strike with daily contributions in the form of images, words, voices, and actions of all kinds.

Comics

Fake It ’Til You Make It

Sometimes where you end up is exactly where you belong.

Art

An Exhibition That Feels Like Sitting at Simone de Beauvoir’s Desk

From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir includes an informal archive of the great feminist philosopher’s works, as well as those of her inspirations and the people influenced by her.

Art

New York City's Museum of Trash Rescued by a Sanitation Worker

Tucked away on the second floor of an East Harlem garage, the Treasures in the Trash Museum features items saved from the landfill over three decades by Nelson Molina.

Art

Discovering Honoré Sharrer, an Eclipsed 20th-Century Surrealist Painter

A survey at the Columbus Museum of Art spotlights the remarkable work of the American artist, who was dogged in her convictions and a master of her medium.

Art

The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Its Historical Maps

The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory launched a project that plots 5,000 digitized street maps across the five boroughs, organized by decade from 1850 to 1950.

Art

Required Reading

This week, clear coffee, gender-variant Indigenous art, a drone's-eye view, Melania Trump's photographic eye, I.M. Pei at 100, critic Jerry Saltz's former life as an artist, and more.

Art

Weekend Words: Soil

"A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty."

Books

A Painter Speaks, so that His Paintings Can Remain Silent

When René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe,” he wasn’t negating the pipe so much as he was negating the language with which we attempt to grasp it.

Art

Nancy Haynes Invites Us to Look Closely

For those who have followed Haynes’ work, her open-ended, experimental approach is not surprising. She is both rigorous and adventuresome without ever claiming these qualities for herself.

Art

Shawn Thornton’s Intricate Cosmos

Thornton’s art is the result of his research into the ways different religious traditions convey the underlying nature of mystical and occult experiences.