Art

The Broken Promises of American Indian Treaties, Sewn onto Quilts

Gina Adams sews text from the American Indian Treaties onto quilts, articulating the deception and violence used to marginalize Native Americans in the formation of the United States.

Guide

Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2017 — with GIFs!

Our handy guide to this week's 11 art fairs in New York City, from the august ADAA Art Show to the diminutive Salon Zürcher, supplemented with animated GIFs.

In Brief

Italian McDonald's Serves Up a Side of Roman Ruins

While digging to build a McDonald's in Marino, Italy, workers discovered an ancient road. The fast-food chain paid to restore it — and integrated it into a restaurant.

Art

From Flash Tattoos to a Fotomat Shack, Looking Beyond Books at the LA Art Book Fair 2017

At Printed Matter’s annual event, some of the highlights were objects that expanded upon the idea of what books can provide: an affordable means to experience and collect art.

Art

Aiming to Disrupt Ads in New York City, Artworks Instead Blend In

Public Art Fund's Commercial Break places interventions by 23 artists on advertising screens around the city.

News

Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]

According to museum visitors, someone attempting to take a selfie in Yayoi Kusama's newest mirror room fell into the gleaming patch of pumpkin sculptures and broke one of them.

Art

The Loneliness of Luis Barragán's Domestic Spaces

James Casebere's latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.

Art

Potent Photos of New York City Protests in the 1980s and '90s

Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City: 1980–2000, now on view at the Bronx Documentary Center, collects 20 years of protest photography in New York City.

Art

On a Foggy Film Set, Karl Marx Sings "The Internationale"

The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz's Jippies Asquerosos ("dirty hippies") project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.

Books

When "Queer" Art Becomes Commonplace

In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer."

Comics

How Much Does Your Art Cost?

It seems like a simple question, but it unleashes a lot.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Lady Liberty gets a "Refugees Welcome" banner, critics hate on Amy Feldman and Jason Rhoades, Warhol's cause of death may be more complicated than we think, drawing black comic characters, and more.