In Memoriam
Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films.
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LACMA's Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
The artist’s mobile outside the LA museum is the inspiration for a new drink à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more.
Art Review
The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
Opinion
The Museum Director as Gardener
Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.
Books
Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
A new biography attempts to make the case for Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.
Film
Celebrating 60 Years of NYC's Millennium Film Workshop
Founded by a group of artists from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the avant-garde space remains a supportive home for a community of experimental and non-commercial filmmakers.
Daily Newsletter
Leon Black, You Can’t Hide
Protests against the Epstein associate and MoMA trustee intensify, Independent Art Fair sells out, and Black artists create their own glossary of liberation.
Books Newsletter
Art Reads for Banned Books Week
J. M. W. Turner’s role in the slave trade, zines and riso prints from the New York Art Book Fair, and books we’re reading right now.
News
MoMA Helping "Sanitize" Leon Black's Reputation, Protesters Say
Activist groups gathered for an action outside the museum today, where Black is still a board member despite intensifying scrutiny into his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Book Review
“Thinking From Black” Is a Glossary of Possibility
Artists, poets, and scholars mull over words of their choosing in this book, offering new definitions of phrases from which Blackness proliferates: “world,” “water,” “care.”
New York Newsletter
On Taking Care of Each Other
Strikes averted at four NYC museums, the devastating loss of Francis Lee Rogers, the city doubles artist grants, and The Met’s breathtaking Krasner-Pollock show.