Guide
25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250
From Indigenous survivance to quilting to modernism, these exhibitions and projects reframe and challenge the story of the United States.
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Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager
San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture challenged the NYC agency to make a deal: Whoever loses Game 5 posts their favorite artwork in the winning city.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Without the fabric there would be no painting.”
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The War Against Imagination
The SAIC cracks down on a professor’s thought experiment and the Obama Presidential Center embodies a nostalgic idea of public life.
Queer Elders
Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction
“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
Art Movements
Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director
Dr. Steven Nelson to helm the nonprofit, Aperture HQ's fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?
Community
Required Reading
This week: Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.
News
Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff
The institution cited “a shift in the political and funding environment” and said staggered furloughs would help avoid layoffs.
Art Review
A Better World at the Obama Center
The new campus is an expression of the former US president's civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem.
Opinion
They Want to Control Our Imagination
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.
News
Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture
The Houston institution said Clarence Heyward's self-portrait "Man in the Garden" (2025) was deliberately vandalized by visitors.
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Carmen Maria Machado on Power
Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa’s work is coming to New York.