News
Baltimore Museum of Art Wants to Reimagine Itself "From Scratch"
After facing backlash for its plan to de-accession major works, the BMA will consult with community members to reinvent its role.
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The Best Thing About This Year’s Met Gala Are the Memes
The Met Gala moved forward last night with the laughably dystopian theme of “American Independence.”
Art
The Indigenous and Female Roots of Harvesting Flax
Christine Borland looks at one of the oldest known forms of fabric in the world.
Art
This Brooklyn Subway Station Is a Portal Into Marcel Dzama's Surrealist Universe
The permanent installation in Williamsburg features anthropomorphic moons and suns, watching over wild, celebratory scenes.
Art
The Silent Lives of Found Photographs
The mind works desperately to fill the gaps in these lost stories.
Comics
Art World Subversion Has Its Limits
Depends on who's doing the subverting.
Opinion
A Sculptor Who Helped Us Find Community Among Strangers
As funding organizations prioritize participatory public art processes and creative engagement, we might look George Rhoads’s corpus as an instigator of engagement.
Film
There Are Now Not One But Two Documentaries About the Salvator Mundi Saga
Both The Lost Leonardo and Savior for Sale dig into how museums and galleries are not merely complicit with the unregulated art-industrial complex, but are necessary to it.
News
Strike MoMA “Phase 2” Starts off Small With Activist-led Teach-in
Passersby joined the small gathering of activists and allies, surprised to learn about the connection between MoMA trustees and global politics.
News
Criticism Grows Around Artist Chosen to Replace Mexico City’s Columbus Monument
"[We] find it inadmissible that Pedro Reyes, a male artist who does not identify as Indigenous, was selected to represent 'the Indigenous woman,'" says the group.
Art
How Judy Baca Redefined the Intersection of Art and Activism
Decades of entrenched art-world racism, gender bias, and resistance to overtly political displays in art have delayed a comprehensive treatment of Baca’s career until now.
Interview
Unearthed Interviews Shed New Light on Truman Capote
Ebs Burnough’s documentary The Capote Tapes uses hundreds of hours of newly discovered interviews about the infamous author to take a deeper look at his life.