Art

Required Reading

This week, LA's new Academy Museum, the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness, a largely unknown 19th century Black theater in NYC, sign language interpreters, and more.

Art

The Problematic Allure of Titian’s Poesie Paintings

Titian’s paintings are masterpieces, with all the complications of the term.

Opinion

The Many Problems with Deana Lawson’s Photographs

Lawson’s images, and the ways that she has discussed her process, seem to be actively reproducing the kind of big-dick energy power dynamics of White male artists who also claim mastery over their subject matter.

Film

With The Gaze, Barry Jenkins Asks Us to Reflect on Black Trauma Narratives

Jenkins’s new short film, the centerpiece of a MoMI exhibit on The Underground Railroad, uses his signature techniques to confront the viewer.

Film

Bob Ross the Dreamer Got a Rude Awakening

The new documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed pulls back the curtain to expose the realities of Bob Ross, Inc. but does it go far enough?

Art

Katherine Bradford Mosaic Murals Make a Manhattan Subway Station Shine

You don't need a train ticket to see the five glass mosaic murals by Bradford at the L train 1 Avenue stop.

Art

A Survey of Aquatint Prints Throughout History, From François Boucher to Goya

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art will trace the technique’s development through Europe, starting in the late 1700s.

News

Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes

"We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen," said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. "I think we make them even better now."

Art

The Political Vision of South Asian Abstraction

The works in Fault Lines prove that abstraction need not be confined to the inner life of the artist.

Art

The Graceful Instability of Kiah Celeste’s Art

Celeste’s sculptures all rely on natural forces to achieve balance, and thus are perpetually on the precipice of collapse.

Art

Takuji Hamanaka’s Spellbinding Prints

By reinventing the traditional bokashi technique, Hamanaka reminds us that nothing is dead, even when many proclaim otherwise.

Art

With a Denver Location, Meow Wolf Expands Its Immersive Schtick

The company's mastery of the art market’s smoke and mirrors is its most impressive illusion.