Art

Political Cartoonists Talk Trump at the Museum of the City of New York

On March 23, five US-based political cartoonists will discuss the realities, challenges, and urgency of their work today.

Art

Artists Sift Through Archives for Memories of Miami

For this exhibition, artists searched through home videos, letters, documents, and images, finding physical ephemera and strange histories with which to create new work.

Art

Tour New York’s Gilded Age Architecture with a New Museum App

“A Walk Through Gilded NY” is an audio and visual tour through the past and present of the city’s turn-of-the-century architecture.

In Brief

Newly Discovered Chinese Tomb Murals Give a Glimpse of Domestic Life 1,000 Years Ago

These colorful paintings give us a sense of the mortuary customs that were part of life in China over a millennium ago.

Art

Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes

After the loss of her father and a close friend, Heide Hatry began making portraits where her subjects' faces are delicately recreated with their own cremated remains.

Art

The Graphic Idealism of the 1970s US Radical Left

An exhibition at the Interference Archive creates the feeling of wandering around an old curiosity shop where the stock is radical politics.

Announcement

'Riverrun,' an Exhibition Centered on Artistic Language at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Like the process of self-psychotherapy, the exhibition RIVERRUN offers a broadly inclusive, all-encompassing view of the writing and reading of art.

Books

The Unflinching Sensuality of Ren Hang's Photographs

The young artist, who died last month at age 29, is the subject of a new monograph from TASCHEN.

Art

Required Reading

This week, imaging the world's longest building, the Oxford comma wins, Grabner on Gibson, We Are All Merkel, artist tattoos MAGA around his anus, and more.

Art

Weekend Words: Chess

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another."

Music

Jens Lekman Cheers Up

All sad singer-songwriters are alike, but Jens Lekman is an exception.

Art

Pattern Recognition: Merion Estes Brings New Life to an Old World

Merion Estes has developed works on paper and fabric that incorporate beautifully abstract images along with references principally to Japanese and Chinese art, but the art of other countries is evident as well.