Art
As Galleries Return to Normal, One Group Show Thinks Big
For Open on K, Hemphill in Washington D.C. asked artists to bring their biggest ideas.
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Art
Naotaka Hiro's Pulp Fictions
Each piece is a record of the artist’s position, movements, and sensations during artmaking, from aches and temperature shifts to the rise and fall of his chest with each passing breath.
Books
California’s Radical and Multicultural Art History, No Longer Dismissed
Art historian Jenni Sorkin surveys the history of visual art in California from the early 20th century to the present.
Opinion
The Age of Too Much Museum Storage Must End
With growing calls for repatriation of colonial era objects and against illegal trafficking of antiquities, hiding them away from public view in a chamber of secrets is doubly unethical.
Film
From Catchy Commercials to Hollywood Think Tanks, the Evolution of Military Recruitment Ads
As long as wars have been fought, wars have needed to be sold. And just like with weapons, the US armed forces have long been on the cutting edge of propaganda.
News
Bernini Bust of a Woman He Abused Exhibited Alongside Photographs of Survivors
The sculpture is paired with contemporary photographs by Ilaria Sagaria in an Uffizi exhibition about violence against women.
News
Attendance to History Museums Plummeted Nearly 70% in 2020
Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it.
News
Have You Noticed There’s a Paint Shortage?
The art industry has been facing material shortages driven by COVID-19 and climate disaster.
Art
A Transgenerational and Intercultural Look at Abstract Painting
"At the root of these works is the issue of poetics — painterly and textual for Jablon, dynamic, multicolor geometry for Odita."
Art
A Rare Look at a Korean Portraiture Tradition
An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum is only the latest step in a long journey to chart the development of Korean identity through art.
Books
What Does God Even Look Like?
The author, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, pushes back against a later theological worldview that the southern Levantine deity was always a singular, unchanging entity.
Books
A Century of Women Designers Who Helped Shape Our Lives
Jane Hall surveys a century of women’s contributions to design, exploring the ways they have shaped life not only in our homes and workplaces, but in society at large.