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News
2022 Armory Show Will Focus on Latinx and Latin American Art
Carla Acevedo-Yates, Mari Carmen Ramírez, and Tobias Ostrander will head the fair’s curated sections and programs next year.
News
Next Month, You’ll Need a Booster Shot to Go to the Met Opera
It’s the first major performing arts venue in New York City to require proof of a third vaccination.
News
Props from TV Show Dickinson Acquired by Emily Dickinson Museum and Harvard University
Hundreds of period-appropriate set items, costumes, and paper facsimiles of Dickinson’s writings were gifted to the museums.
Art
A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden's Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time.
Art
An Artist Honors Iceland's Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.
Art
Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.
Film
Yugoslavian Monuments Deliver a Message from Two Billion Years in the Future
The only film directed by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson before his death in 2018, Last and First Men is an eerie combination of sci-fi and documentary.
Opinion
Why Does Instagram Keep Allowing My Images to Be Stolen?
It seems like my plum photo can be used to sell almost anything: beauty products, nutritional supplements, mental health coaching, fashion, concept stores.
Books
A History of Utopian Nudist Clubs in Buttoned-up Britain
In the mid-1900s, nudists in Britain believed they could improve national health and remedy buttoned-up social norms and rigid class divisions.
Opinion
The Humboldt Forum’s Disappointing Ethnographic Collections
The Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art were not included in the Forum’s grand inauguration in July, but instead, quietly opened in September.
Art
The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell
Each portrait in Lovell's current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.