Guide
Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Some of our favorite exhibitions center performance and pattern, from MoMA PS1’s Vaginal Davis survey to a show on data infographics inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois.
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Art Review
The Propaganda Dilemma
Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s infographics about the lives of Black people after Emancipation, an exhibition at New York’s Print Center complicates our reading of data.
Opinion
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
News
Smithsonian Closes as Government Shutdown Enters Third Week
The institution’s 21 museums, zoo, and research centers are shuttered indefinitely as Congress remains in a stalemate over funding.
Features
Weeks After Fire, Red Hook Open Studios Returns Defiantly
Crowds of art revelers brushed aside the soggy weather this weekend to visit spaces below the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
Features
A Community Art Show for Palestine Confronts Authoritarianism
The third iteration of Hind’s House in Washington Heights, steps from Columbia University, addresses interconnected struggles in Gaza and the US.
News
Two Arrested for Splashing Paint on Columbus Artwork in Spain
Activists at Madrid’s Museo Naval called for an end to the “glorification of colonization and genocides, both historical and current.”
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Experiment Across Disciplines With the MFA in Visual Art at WashU’s Sam Fox School
Chaired by artist Tiffany Calvert, this research-based program at Washington University in St. Louis offers cutting-edge facilities and a diversified approach to contemporary art.
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Judith Schaechter Explores Neuroaesthetics and the Nature of Beauty at the Museum of Craft and Design
Biophilia, beauty, and the brain. Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural is now on view in San Francisco.
Art Review
A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
Judy Ledgerwood turns the decorous decorum of Pattern & Decoration into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar.
Art Review
Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
Art Review
The Video Game of Life
In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.