Art
Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible
The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.
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Comics
Yoko Ono’s Quiet Destructions
Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career.
Books
Two Books That’ll Make You Feel Bad for AI
A small press is publishing innovative narrative works that travel across genres, including autotheory, criticism, experimental poetry, and documentary.
Community
A View From the Easel
“The longer I paint, the more I realize what I don’t know or cannot do. Simply exploring the material could keep a person busy forever.”
Art
15 NYC Art Shows to See in October
Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.
News
Inconspicuous Church Painting Turns Out to Be by Botticelli’s Studio
The work was long believed to be a more recent replica of a 16th-century work by the Renaissance master.
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Paris Museum Apologizes for Contentious Tibetan Artifact Labels
The Musée du Quai Branly promised to rectify its labels and website language that trades “Tibet” for “Xizang” — a term propagated by the Chinese government.
Art
The Elementary School That Welcomed Keith Haring
To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.
Art
An Intimate Autobiography of Robert Rauschenberg
In many ways, Autobiography, a small Rauschenberg exhibition in Santa Barbara, is self-explanatory, and this is its great strength.
Art
The Acerbic Wit of Trinidad’s Carnival Costumes
Braxton Garneau was inspired by Trinidad’s long tradition of carnival costumes that exude acerbic sartorial wit as social critique.
Guide
Can’t-Miss Events During Atlanta Art Week
As our Freaknik celebrations of the 1980s and ’90s showed, if there’s one thing this city knows how to do well, it’s how to throw a party.
News
NYC’s Rubin Museum Faces Repatriation Demands Ahead of Closure
The local activist group Our Ancestors Say No is calling for the return of Tibetan and Himalayan objects including a Buddhist Shrine Room set to be relocated to the Brooklyn Museum.