News
A New Rubell Museum Is Coming Soon to DC
The 32,000-square-foot space will occupy the former Randall Junior High School, a historically Black public school and landmarked building.
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Opinion
Harvard Is Paying a Small Price for Laundering Its Past
The first and best thing the university can do to atone for its past of exploitation and profiteering is simply to renounce its present-day exploitation and profiteering.
Film
Pleasure Dispels Male Fantasies of Porn
Ninja Thyberg’s film replicates a common plot structure for classic porn as it follows a young performer entering the business, but its focus is on the labor involved.
Art
Photography’s Impossible Attempt at Freezing Time
A photo’s presence suggests the fear of its absence, the artist’s fear of time slipping away.
Art
Keisha Prioleau-Martin's Body Euphoria
The artist represents what she describes as the “inner glowing life of individuals,” uplifting self-love despite political and economic strife.
Art
The Artists Bringing Jamaican Dancehall to Center Stage
A group of artists are reinforcing the undeniable cultural value of dancehall in Jamaican culture.
News
Madonna’s NFT Collab With Beeple Is a Matryoshka of Vagina Horrors
Can’t Madonna just donate to charity without making everyone look at a 3D scan of her vagina?
News
Warhol’s “Blue Marilyn” Breaks Records With $195M Sale
The painting, which bears the bullet holes shot by performance artist Dorothy Podber, is now the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction.
News
Marfa, Texas Joins National Register of Historic Places
Minimalist artist Donald Judd helped transform the rural desert town into an arts destination, the last thing he wanted.
News
North America’s Largest Cave Art Discovered in Alabama
The cave is so shallow that the artists would not have been able to see the drawings in their entirety, meaning they worked from their imaginations.
Art
The Activist Spirit of a Denver Artist Residency Program
Colorado’s Platteforum shows that residency programs can be bold when it comes to serving artists and communities
Art
The Monstrous Beauty of Louise Bourgeois's Late Textiles
The Woven Child at London’s Hayward Gallery is a moving examination of Bourgeois's fabric sculptures, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma.