News
LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
News
Indian Craft Shop Closure Leaves Complicated Legacy
As the US Department of the Interior looks to preserve the longstanding market’s operation, many see a need to move beyond history.
Art Review
John Wilson Spent a Lifetime Making Blackness Visible
His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art.
Art Review
Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery reveals the artist’s astonishing technical skills, but the wall texts are laugh-out-loud amusing at best and art historically dangerous at worst.
Features
From a Soho Loft to the World’s First LGBTQ+ Art Museum
In the face of discrimination, harassment, and the AIDS crisis, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art became a beacon for queer creativity.
Book Review
A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation
A new book pulses with artistic forms by Puerto Rican artists born of necessity, urgency, collaboration, and activism.
Features
Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
The Pussy Riot co-founder undergoes a 10-day durational performance in a recreation of a cell in Police State.
Art Review
UChicago MFA Students’ Offbeat Aesthetics
Highlights are Eleonore Zurawski’s delicate and brutal sculptures and Rebekka Federle-McCabe’s explicit but tender dog sculptures.
Art Review
How Huguette Caland and Hai-Wen Lin Listen to the Body
Playful and witty, full of bright color and unexpected shapes, two of the most delightful solo shows up in Chicago right now concern human bodies.
News
Smithsonian Pushes Back Against Trump’s Meddling in Defiant Statement
Though the president attempted to fire her last month, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet still reports to work.