Art Review
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Learning about Cha was like a secret revelation handed down among Asian American artists and poets. This show helped me appreciate her more clearly.
Latest
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt
“My favorite phrase lately is ‘mouthfeel,’ which is used in relation to food and drink,” said the East Village artist. “I’m thinking about that textural quality as a parallel to the paintings.”
News
Trump Threatens to Wipe Out Iranian Civilization
The president's threats to destroy the Islamic regime have escalated to include the entire population of Iran and the millennia of history and culture preceding it.
Art Review
The Unbearable Strangeness of Being
In Cinga Samson’s haunted paintings, we do not know what we are looking at, or where we are.
Feature
The Museum Breathing Life Into New York's Downtown Performance Scene
The Leslie-Lohman is figuring out how to collect art while connecting with the basic needs of the city's queer community.
Feature
Peep the Wildest Costumes of This Year’s Easter Bonnet Parade
The decorous fashion show has evolved into a rambunctious and all-inclusive pageant of New York’s crafters, artists, and street performers.
News
A Dedicated Ruth Asawa Space Is Coming to San Francisco
Complementing the artist’s various public works throughout the city, her family-run estate's forthcoming gallery comes on the centenary of the artist's birth year.
Art Review
LA Artists Honor Dolores Huerta’s Defiant Spirit
In honor of the labor leader’s 96th birthday, over 30 Los Angeles artists pay homage to her lifelong fight for the rights and dignity of everyday people.
News
Dutch Museum Discovers 8-Inch Ancient Roman Phallus
The bone carving was found in a forgotten collection of 16,000 boxes containing various archaeological finds at the Valkhof Museum.
Feature
Salvador Dalí’s Frustrating Vision of the Divine
Having abandoned the profane for only the sacred, Dalí’s “Nuclear Mysticism” renounced the richness of experience for the aridity of metaphysics.
Art Review
Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Personal I Ching
The artist is synthesizing the divergent cultural histories of Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting into one.
News
Lebanese Artist Accuses Israel of War Crime for Strike That Killed His Parents
“We have to break this cycle of impunity," Ali Cherri, who filed a complaint against Israel in France’s War Crimes Unit, told Hyperallergic.