Art
Tripping Through James Ensor’s Macabre Painted World with Luc Tuymans
Tuymans steps up to the bar, and this feels like a kaleidoscopic tour of Ensor’s clearly voraciously imaginative brain.
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News
Art Workers Organize a Fair for Political Action
This Saturday's Forward Union Fair intends to connect visitors with nonprofits and community groups, and to help people find ways to become politically active.
Art
How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries
The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.
Opinion
Should the Art World Strike on Inauguration Day?
Will the art world in the US close down on Inauguration Day? What will that mean? #J20
Art
Splicing Together Portraits of Countries' Leaders
The artist Guney Soykan's Face of a Nation series consists of striking and unusual timelines of countries' political leadership over the past half-century.
Art
An Audio Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s Dust
Artist Nina Katchadourian spent two years exploring the dustiest realms of New York's Museum of Modern Art for a new audio tour.
Interview
On Teaching Native American History Through the Smithsonian’s Presidential Portraits
The Native American performance artist DeLesslin George-Warren is giving walking tours of the National Portrait Gallery's hall of presidential portraits with a focus on the history of indigenous American populations.
Comics
So You Want to Hurt an Artist's Feelings
These backhanded compliments should do the trick.
News
Saved by Shakespeare's Father, a Series of Medieval Murals Is Finally Restored
A group of wall paintings in Stratford-upon-Avon's Guild Chapel should have been destroyed in 1563, but John Shakespeare had them covered in limewash instead, preserving them for centuries.
Art
Kerry James Marshall and the Politics of Visibility
The retrospective of the work of Kerry James Marshall demonstrates a deep knowledge of blackness and a desire to expand the world of art with it.
Art
Decoding Painted Constellations of Tiny, Mysterious Symbols
The centerpiece of Jonathan Saiz's show at Leon Gallery in Denver is a vast grid of 901 tiny paintings, the circles drawn around them and strings stretched between them evoking a conspiracy theorist's obtuse research.
In Brief
Artists Give Away Anti-Trump Designs for Your T-Shirt, Sticker, or Protest Sign
If we're going to protest continuously for four years, we might as well keep it aesthetically interesting.