Film
Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film
Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist's real life.
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Art
The Liberation of '90s R&B Divas
In her solo show at American Medium, E. Jane reconsiders the musical genre as a site of black freedom.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum May Start Charging Admission to Out-of-Towners
The museum is in talks with municipal officials about potentially charging tourists a mandatory admission fee.
Art
A Photographer’s Images of a Changing Seoul After the Korean War
An exhibition at ICP at Mana showcases the pictures made by Han Youngsoo upon returning from the front line.
News
Two Art Projects Help You Fax Your Discontent to Politicians
Through Artifax and Post Fax, constituents can send lawmakers and their staffers messages of support for the NEA and a more progressive agenda.
Announcement
Public Programs for Robert Stadler at the Noguchi Museum
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum is the museum’s first exhibition in which a contemporary designer’s work is installed in tandem with Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures.
Film
Known for Silent Movies About Buildings, a Filmmaker Turns to Music and Conversation
Two films marking a new phase of Heinz Emigholz’s prolific career are being screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real series.
Art
A Flattened World Full of Intimacy
In his solo show at Terrault Contemporary, Devin N. Morris suggests that touching paper need not differ from touching flesh.
Art
Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s
Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.
Comics
Painting in the Footsteps of Thomas Cole
Cole wanted you to stare off into the impending destruction of a landscape and ponder the sublime beauty of it all — which, man, I did.
Books
Remixing Six Centuries of Iconic Graphic Designs
In a new book, Phaidon considers the unexpected and deliberate connections between 500 of our most recognizable images.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Mario Mentrup
In his works, which are all performative to varying degrees, Mentrup tests our psychological limits.