Art Review
The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
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Film Review
An Artist Who Transgressed the Boundaries of the Body
“A Body to Live In” takes a multilayered perspective on artist Fakir Musafar’s life to creatively excavate his role as a pioneer of extreme body modification.
Opinion
Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.
News
Matthew Courtney, Downtown Artist Who Platformed Others, Dies at 66
From the mid-1980s through early ’90s, he hosted the weekly anything-goes open-mic event Wide Open Cabaret at the historic home of ABC No Rio.
News
This Year’s Met Gala Memes Prove We’re All Tired of This Shit
The lack of risk-taking and personal flair in this year’s outfits — particularly in celebrating Black dandyism — isn’t even worth our sass.
Podcast
How Workers in Ancient Egypt and Rome Organized Strikes
Historian Sarah E. Bond joins Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian to discuss the 3000-year-old legacy of workers rebelling against unjust wages and working conditions.
Art Review
When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.
News
No, That Was Not Rosa Parks on K-Pop Star Lisa’s Met Gala Outfit
Amid wild online speculation, it was revealed that the portraits on the black-lace jacket and bodysuit were designed by painter Henry Taylor for Louis Vuitton.
Art Review
The Courtauld’s Impressionism Show Is a Victim of Corporate Curating
It seems that the philanthropic funds that enable shows like this are at the expense of art historical depth and integrity, perhaps even curators’ jobs.
Art Review
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
News
Colosseum Denies Reports of Tourist Injured on Its Grounds
Italian outlets reported that an American man was impaled by a metal fence outside the ancient amphitheater.
Art
New York City Shows to See This Week
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Claudia Alarcón, and Nanette Carter are three of the artists whose work we’re enjoying, among many shows that pack a punch.