News
Stunning Pale-Blue Frescoes Found in Pompeii
The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately 2,000 years.
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Art
What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?
Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
News
Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Finds
More than half of respondents said they earned under $25,000 a year.
Art
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Art
Healing Japanese Art for the End Times
A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
Art
Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennale
Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
Opinion
How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat?
Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.
Art
Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
Film
The Women and Children of the Second Artsakh War
Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War.
News
Sculpture of Virgin Mary in Labor Beheaded in Austrian Cathedral
The work was part of an exhibition exploring women's roles in faith and tradition.
Art
Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined
I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.
Books
The Revisions That Make Us Human
Revising Reality argues that the world as we know it is our creative output so our memories cannot help but be continually edited.