Books
Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography
Francis made over 10,000 artworks, starred in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and, in the late 1950s to mid-1960s, commanded the highest prices of any living painter.
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Books
A Psychedelic History of Mushrooms as Medicine
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii deploys amazing graphic storytelling to share his own exploration of mushroom history.
History
What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About Comfort in the Office
Over a century after Wright designed a workplace that borrowed features from the home, designers are at it again, but who does a homey office really serve?
News
Research Confirms Norse Vikings Arrived in Americas 1,000 Years Ago
Archeologists can now prove the Vikings made landfall in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus reached the Bahamas.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the National Gallery of Art finally acquired a major work by Faith Ringgold, the director of The Velvet Underground talks film, North America's Hindu Nationalist problem, canceling legacy admissions, and more.
Art
Día de los Muertos Comes to NYC With a Dazzling Display of Mexican Folk Art
Sculptures of Oaxacan alebrijes, envisioned as guardians of the nation's immigrant community, and catrinas, Day of the Dead skeletons, are now at Rockefeller Center.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Janice Nowinski
“I am trying to keep the immediacy of my emotional experience while I’m painting.”
Art
The Cerebral Art of Wrestling
Wrestling is less a physical act than a psychological space in Mark Yang’s paintings.
Art
The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey's documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
Art
Shimon Attie Resurrects “Hitler on Ice” With Afro-Brazilian Dance
The intention behind the seemingly bizarre combination was, according to Attie, “to give visual form to the shared American and Brazilian reality of nationalistic divisions that defines our political present.”
Opinion
Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?
Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.
News
Ford Foundation Invests $50M in the Power That Art and Narrative Can Change Ideas
Several members of the 2021 cohort identify as artists and storytellers, utilizing the power that art and narrative have on changing ideas of power.