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Smiles Meyer Queers “The Last Supper”
The Los Angeles-based photographer, who was raised in a conservative Catholic environment, is reclaiming the divinity of queer and trans identity through religious imagery.
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The Buffalo Haunts America
Hrag Vartanian on Cannupa Hanska Luger, Artavazd Pelechian’s cinema of connections, and a Ron DeSantis statue melts.
Weekly Newsletter
Diaries of a Primitive Man
John Yau on Roy Lichtenstein, Megan O’Grady on John Berger, and Paddy Johnson answers the question: Do I need an agent?
Art Review
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America
The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element.
Film Review
Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
Pocket Review
Tanya Merrill's Animal Instinct
After a move upstate and a newborn, Merrill’s new work responds to the world around her.
News
This Ron DeSantis Statue Can’t Take the Heat
The climate group 350 Action’s gallium statue began melting soon after being installed outdoors in Tallahassee on October 13.
Film Review
Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”
Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, who has a knack for patient observation, follows a single family on a quest to find a miracle.
News
Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt
The two sculptures were discovered after a citizen found a hieroglyph-etched stone on his property.
Community
A View From the Easel: Allan Wexler
“My past sculptures [and] tools act as levers that pry ideas from my mind.”
Daily Newsletter
The “Renegade Housewife” of Pop Art
Stories from a pioneering journalist and art worker, John Yau on Valerio Adami, and books of warp and weft for your reading list.
Art Movements
Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga Selected for Met Museum Commissions
Genesis Facade and Great Hall artists announced, a new leader for the Armenian Museum of America, Bernie Sanders weighs in on the AI art debate, and more.