Art
A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.
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An Artist Finds Inspiration in an Inherited Archive of African American Culture
A love of Black art and history was the bedrock of the friendship between Dell Marie Hamilton and Susan Denker, who had markedly different racial, economic, and generational subject positions.
Art
Tony Fitzpatrick's Last Museum Show
With what he says is his final museum bow, Fitzpatrick shines a light on the colorful diversity that composes his city.
Opinion
Racism Still Influences Cuban Arts and Culture
The question of race — however hidden, however camouflaged by the shouts of the crowds — is a constant theme and an unanswered challenge.
Books
A Portrait of the Last Six Years of US Politics
Brink is not a fun book, and it shouldn’t be.
News
Bye, Bye, Bandanas: LA MOCA Visitors Must Wear Medical-grade Masks
Those who want to visit the museum muse have a surgical, KN95, N95, or KF94 face mask.
Art
Required Reading
This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal's vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more.
Art
Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
Art
Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.
Art
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
News
In Seattle, Staff Call for a Boycott in Response to Museum’s Reaction to Unhoused Community
Decolonize SAM says the museum is “putting property over people” by implementing harsh measures against the unhoused community in lieu of alternative efforts.
Art
Israeli Museum Suspended Operations After 47 Artists Ask to Remove Work
David Reeb's painting was removed due to political pressure from the local mayor, prompting backlash by other artists.