Feature
21c Museum Hotel Immerses You in Art
Art is ensconced in every nook and cranny, from hallways and elevators to individual rooms with various themes, and is accessible around the clock.
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Art Review
Helina Metaferia Takes Back the Museum
The Ethiopian-American artist creates her own artifacts to highlight a lineage of Black female activism.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I also tend to call my friends and gossip for hours while I paint.”
Guide
6 Art Books to Read This August
Before summer ends, we’re reading books on Ruth Asawa’s circle of artist-mothers, water and race in contemporary art, Kent Monkman, Carrie Yamaoka, and more.
Feature
Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction
With his latest series of shaped paintings, layered with meaning and symbolism, the artist insists that the so-called canon is informed by non-Western visual traditions that preceded it.
Art Review
A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams
Along with his studio art, Williams has long worked with the Chicago Public Art Group and his collaborative handiwork can be found throughout the city.
Art Review
José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico
He celebrated the physical entity of Mexico in its exactness, rather than appealing to ingrained nationalistic European sensibilities of history painting.
News
Changing Tides Expose Centuries-Old Petroglyphs in Hawaii
A 115-foot-long stretch of carvings is now visible for the first time since it was spotted nine years ago.
News
Harlem’s Studio Museum Announces Reopening Date
After a seven-year renovation beset by delays, the New York institution returns with significantly expanded spaces and iconic works from its collection.
Opinion
Haunted by the Gray
What do we lose when we can’t see the Black American people in Amy Sherald’s paintings with their real skin color?
Guide
New York City Shows We Love Right Now
From Moomins to Warhol to posters protesting nuclear war and prayer as healing, we’re all about uplifting shows this week.
Art Review
The Visual Language of the Nuclear Age
Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power.