Feature
The Sticky Politics of Wall Texts
I never thought I would become an art critic who complains about exhibition didactics. And yet, after a visit to the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, here I am.
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Book Review
How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
Art Review
John Altoon’s Fever Dream Drawings
After a stint in 1950s New York, the LA-based artist abandoned abstraction and painting in favor of dreamlike, sexually charged drawings.
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Plunging Into Bex McCharen’s Trans Queer Atlantic
Through oceanic quilts and photographs, the artist transforms Miami’s waters into a site of refuge, memory, and belonging.
Art Review
The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson
From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.
Opinion
All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel
A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.
News
Defying Trump’s Orders, NYC Re-Raises Pride Flag at Stonewall
Activists and officials returned the rainbow flag to Christopher Park after it was removed at the federal administration’s directive.
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Step Into the World of Studio Ghibli's “Ponyo”
A new exhibition at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles conveys the film’s whimsy and wonder through interactive elements.
Feature
Queer Arab Artists on Their Own Terms
Across two galleries in Manhattan, eight artists and collectives flout the weaponization of their identities to justify violence, instead presenting a vision of belonging and reclaimed lineages.
News
University of North Texas Shutters Exhibition of Artworks Critical of ICE
Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, a Mexican-American artist whose work centers immigrant experiences, said the school closed his show without notice.