News
Mexican Museum Removes Derogatory Art About Sex Workers
Ana Gallardo’s mural at MUAC included offensive descriptions and slurs directed at a shelter for older former sex workers in Mexico City.
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Art
Six New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
As mid-October rolls around we’re enjoying some serious and not-so-serious art by Carrie Mae Weems, Mala Iqbal, Lady Shalamar Montague, and others.
Art
Centering Indigenous Storytelling Through the Culinary Arts
A meal hosted by Forge Project and I-Collective to mark the fall harvest focused on Indigenous foodways and community-stewarded knowledge.
Art
A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.
News
War Reenactors Wear Nazi Uniforms to Restaurant, Angering Diners
The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts said it would review its protocols for historical war reenactments after the incident.
Performance
Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
Books
Hettie Judah Confronts the Unwritten History of Artist-Mothers
Though more interested in taxonomy than analysis, the critic’s new book is most exhilarating when it maps a timeline of childrearing’s influence on artists.
News
Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker Named President of National Gallery of Art
Walker has been credited with developing a major art acquisition fund for the DC museum, where he has been a trustee since 2019.
News
Nan Goldin Among 200 Jewish Activists Arrested at NYC Protest for Palestine
Artist Molly Crabapple and filmmaker Laura Poitras were also arrested at a massive sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange.
Art
The Force of Community Bends Space in Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portraits
The artist depicts Los Angeles dancers as they dance, dress, and rest.
Art
Holbein the Younger Looked Death in the Eye
Death, in the artist’s imagination, is the oblivion that spares no one, regardless of what you have or haven’t done, regardless of who you are.
Books
Danny Lyon Lived His Photography
The photographer's autobiography takes us on a long voyage from East to West and back again without smoothing over the potholes in the road.