News
Promising Teen Artists Get the Spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum
Former recipients of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards include Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari.
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Portraits by John Brewster Jr., a Prolific Deaf Painter, Gifted to American Folk Art Museum
The sought-after artist communicated with his clients through gestures or in writing.
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Week in Review: Penn Museum Admits to Storing Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims; MoMA Appoints New Board Chair
Also, check out this tribute to NYC’s beloved bodega cats, and more.
Art
An Artist’s Crash Course in Government
In a series of PSA-style videos, Paul Pescador poses questions about government that quickly unravel into a nightmarishly complex knot of existential crises.
Art
Precious Okoyomon Envelops Us in the Textures of Black Mourning
At Performance Space New York, Okoyomon enables a sense of communion amid unrelenting loss.
Film
Absurdist Scandinavian Musings on Loneliness
Roy Andersson's About Endlessness presents a series of elaborate vignettes about isolated characters.
Interview
Thinking About the Intersection Between Human Rights and the Arts
“We want to look at a community level that’s rarely taken seriously in academia or in the art world.”
News
MoMA Announces New Board Chair to Replace Leon Black
Marie-Josée Kravis will succeed the disgraced financier, who remains a trustee of the museum’s board.
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Stone-age Crystals Challenge Conceptions of Where Civilizations Emerged in Africa
The discovery in the Kalahari Desert disrupts the prevailing notion that human origins were linked to coastal environments.
Film
A Tribute to Los Angeles's Street Vendors
Ruben Ochoa and Pete Galindo are premiering "The Politics of Street Vendors in Los Angeles" with LACMA this Saturday.
Art
El Museo’s Triennial Defies Stereotypes Mapped Onto Latinx Art
Amid the museum’s complicated past, this first triennial offers some hope for the future.
Opinion
A Contested Chicago Monument to Native Americans Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Balkan Nationalisms
Any discussion of “The Bowman and The Spearman” would be incomplete without an understanding of the progressive, idealist politics behind Ivan Meštrović’s chosen style.