Features
The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House
Hugo Crosthwaite, whose stop-motion animation about the scientist was targeted by the Trump administration, talks to Hyperallergic about the work’s backstory.
Art Review
The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.
Features
Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression
A new exhibition focuses on Black Southerners documented by photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.
News
Art Dealers Get Candid Ahead of the Armory Show
Amid market unease and slimmer blue-chip participation, some galleries see an opportunity to cultivate collectors at the mammoth Manhattan fair.
News
Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off Workers
Faculty and union members are questioning the staff cuts, arguing that they will harm the school’s ability to nurture the next generation of artists.
News
Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months
As Trump goes after the institution, a temporary space for the National Museum of the American Latino closed ahead of schedule in preparation for America’s 250th programming.
Art Review
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
News
World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future
The artist’s namesake museum in Amsterdam says it will be forced to shutter if the government doesn’t raise its subsidies for sustainability and repairs.
Community
Required Reading
This week: The ethics of design, Noguchi Museum workers speak out, Native communities on the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Letterboxd woes, music classes in Gaza, and more.
Art Review
Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
Art Review
Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism
The painter wanted to experience the shock of strangeness, to embrace the allure of the louche, the forbidden, the disapproved of.