Art
Alexander Si's “Sweet Green” installation at Chinatown Soup, a near-replica of one of the popular salad chain’s franchises, explored the experience of blue-collar service workers and their place in a system of race-based capitalism.
Film
The documentary has impressive access to contemporary art world figures, but comes up with no good solutions for the many problems it discusses.
Art
Gechtoff’s work did not fit into any of the New York art world’s narratives of progressive art. It is time we look closer at what this marvelous artist achieved.
Art
Riley’s nautical-themed exhibition brims with antic details that constitute a feat of serious world-building.
Art
In her art, Tse confronts the hypocrisies of our larger environmental reality, in which the time to search for sustainable models is running out.
Art
Some things in life are more than just “blessed” or “cursed” — they are “blursed,” which is to say, both.
News
The works had previously been offered to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, but the institution turned them down on the basis that it could not establish “clear and secure” provenance for over half of the collection.
News
The news comes after former Louvre President Jean-Luc Martinez was charged in May with concealing the origins of illegally smuggled Egyptian antiquities.
News
An open letter signed by hundreds of art workers, organizers, and community members accuses arts institutions of “artwashing” the $2 billion project.
Interview
Run entirely by volunteers, Interference Archive is a true alternative to the city’s market-driven gallery scene.
Art
Nothing Is to Be Done for William T. Wiley is a roller derby of irreverent and energetic ideas and a serious revelation about Northern California’s art historical significance.
Books
The letters between Taeuber-Arp and her patroness, Annie Müller-Widmann, show the usually invisible tending that goes into an artist-patron relationship.