Art
The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings
Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable.
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Art
Willem de Kooning’s Italy
Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto.
Art
See Dozens of New York City Landmarks That No Longer Exist
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society traces the city’s history through its long-forgotten monuments.
Performance
A Public Performance Series Aims to Combat “Climate Despair”
At the Queens Botanical Garden, A Fun Play About How Scary Climate Change Is illuminates possibilities for collective care and grassroots change.
News
Indigenous Artists Win Top Prizes at Venice Biennale
Archie Moore and the Mataaho Collective took home Golden Lions for Australia and New Zealand, respectively.
Opinion
Scratching Beneath the Surface of Identity-Based Group Shows
While Asian-American Art may be "plagued by generational amnesia," as Sharon Mizota wrote for Hyperallergic, the artists and curators of Scratching at the Moon are definitely not.
Art
Bomb Shelter Posters in Venice Evoke the Reality of War in Ukraine
The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.
Art
Benin Debuts First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination.
Art
A Rock and a Fry Pan Walked Into a Gallery
In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.
Books
How Big Cats Once Symbolized France’s Colonialist Ambitions
Myth and Menagerie urges us to view lions as sentient beings and not as timeless, passive objects of representation for 19th-century French artists.
Art
A Black Bean Grows Quietly in Washington Square Park
In a 10-day meditation, Jemila MacEwan silently nurtures a seed in the palm of their hand amidst the hustle and bustle of the iconic public park.
News
Guggenheim Museum Workers Rally for Fair Contract in Lunch Break Action
Art handlers and facility workers have been negotiating for a second contract since November.