Art

Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism

In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico.

Art

Required Reading

This week, criticism of New York's proposed "feminist jail," activists are losing steam, cultural appropriation parodies on TikTok, and more.

News

Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024

The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.

Art

A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces

The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.

Opinion

Donatello's Queer Glamour

The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men.

Art

Josefina Auslender's Portraits of Argentina's Dirty War

Auslender's art brings personal associations and a sense of intimacy to images of torture based on the crimes of Argentina's ruling junta from 1974 to 1983.

Art

Dancing to the Borscht Beat

Aaron Bendich draws from his massive collection of Yiddish records to share an hour of otherwise hidden music on his radio show Borscht Beat. Recently, he also launched an independent Yiddish record label.

Art

A Faux Sweetgreen Storefront in Chinatown Probes the Racial Dynamics of Labor

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 Art of Making It Is a Film for Those Who Haven’t Been Paying Attention

The documentary has impressive access to contemporary art world figures, but comes up with no good solutions for the many problems it discusses.

Art

Sonia Gechtoff Finally Gets Her Due

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

Duke Riley’s Burlesque Spin on the Trappings of Museum Display and Folk Art

Riley’s nautical-themed exhibition brims with antic details that constitute a feat of serious world-building.

Art

Shirley Tse's Ecology of the Everyday

In her art, Tse confronts the hypocrisies of our larger environmental reality, in which the time to search for sustainable models is running out.