Books
N.V. Parekh and the Rise of Studio Photography in East Africa
Isolde Brielmaier’s book I Am Sparkling illustrates how Parekh’s studio became a place for sitters to assert their agency in a changing world.
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Art
Two Sparse Brooklyn Exhibitions Probe the Elemental Forces of Life
Things have their own power and agency in the artist’s installation and humans are part of a complex world of life forms and materials.
Books
Amusing Stories About the Muses of Art
Ruth Millington tells the story of the women (and nine men) who have been portrayed in various paintings considered “masterpieces.”
News
Activists Who Targeted “Girl With a Pearl Earring” Get Jail Time
A member of the activist group Last Generation called the Dutch court’s verdict “disgusting.”
News
California Mural Honoring Latinas Defaced With “White Power” Graffiti
Created in 2020 by Alicia Rojas, the Orange County mural features the name of eight poderosas, or strong women, and poetry in English and Spanish.
News
Disgraced Art Dealer Subhash Kapoor Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence
Kapoor led a smuggling ring charged with trafficking over 2,600 individual objects worth over $143 million.
News
Iranian Artists Plead for International Support
Activists are organizing a “call-in day” to remind politicians of the ongoing crisis with a protest-performance planned in New York this weekend.
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Misunderstood Oeuvre
Critics who have deemed the photographer couple’s work outmoded and detached are simply wrong.
Art
The Many Faces of Ukrainian Photography Today
In Ukrainian Photography Today the now and then come into intimate contact to reveal a story about one’s roots and uprootedness.
Art
Reclining Men Reading Radical Books
Artist Pachi Muruchu merges his radical beliefs and resistance to colonialism with a complex sense of color and the moods it can conjure and inflect.
Opinion
Finding Strength as an Artist With Chronic Illness
When the profits from every sale are dumped right back into medical costs, what does the balance of surviving and creating even look like?
Art
The Contentious History of a Lost Cave House in Mexico City
The destruction of “Casa Cueva,” one of Juan O’Gorman’s last architectural works, pitted two great artists against each other in one of the most divisive episodes in Mexican contemporary art history.