Art
An LA Gallery’s Sexy Xmas Tradition
The Lodge has a cheeky interpretation of Christmas cheer.
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News
While 11% of Staff Was Laid Off, Guggenheim Director Made Record $1.5 Million
The museum says its director, Richard Armstrong, took a 25% pay cut during the pandemic — but the reduction didn't apply to "compensation earned in prior years."
News
EU Takes a Major Step Towards Ending the Ivory Trade
The European Parliament's two resolutions bring it in line with already existing bans in the US and China.
News
Omicron's Rapid Spread Shuts Down Museums Across Europe
Art institutions in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and elsewhere are impacted by the new wave of closures.
Art
The Art Historical Gems on TikTok
School never taught me this.
Art
An Intimate Look at the Landscape of the South Texas Borderlands
Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries.
Film
The New West Side Story Brings the Show’s Father Issues to the Fore
Director Steven Spielberg, long fixated on absent dads, interrogates this theme and other issues of patriarchy and gender roles in his cinematic take on the classic show.
Art
Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again
Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location.
News
Preservationists Balk at the City’s Plan to Redevelop Penn Station
The redevelopment includes razing 50 buildings for 10 new skyscrapers.
Art
bell hooks Left Behind a Legacy of Scholarship on Art and Love
Not content to wait for a bevy of critics to comment on the going-ons of the non-white art world, hooks took it upon herself to write about the artists she believed to be critical in the field.
Art
The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work
Between 1962 and ’75, Willenbecher made a substantial body of work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to make order out of the inexplicable.
Opinion
Remembering Jaider Esbell and How His Activism Challenged Art Institutions
Jaider Esbell showed us that future biennials will need to look to art activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as authoring agents.