Art
After Pregnancy, an Artist’s Work Changes Course
“You turn inward because you’re focused on this new life that’s housed inside of you,” said Kimia Ferdowsi Kline.
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Contending With Urgent Questions About Art and Feminisms in Buenos Aires
Cuando Cambia el Mundo (When the World Changes) invites audiences to deconstruct their own biases.
News
The Met Will Repatriate Two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Critics note that the Met has failed to address the hundreds of other works from Benin that remain in its collection.
News
The World Is Getting a Nintendo Museum
Let’s-a go! The new museum will be built on the site of the company’s historic Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, Japan.
Art
Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
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Yikui (Coy) Gu’s Tour of the US
There is nothing subtle about Gu’s work: it is in your face because the racism he encounters is always there.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a drawing by Leonardo goes to auction, the art Napoleon stole, sites of POC history in the US, defining misogynoir, the tyranny of time, and more.
Art
Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
Art
A Flawed Retrospective for a Surrealist Rebel
There is so much information handed to us in the exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy that we risk forgetting what we might think if we came fresh to a painting.
Art
Alex Caldiero, Outsider and Naysayer
Caldiero’s language experiments are rooted in the land and anchored in his body, at the junction between his brain and his larynx.
Books
Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity
Emily Segal's novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York's creative community.
Film
A '70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.