News
Study Shows Correlation Between Number of Confederate Monuments and Lynchings
The University of Virginia researchers wrote that the data “provides compelling evidence that these symbols are associated with hate.”
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Art
The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle
We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.
Art
Internal and External Worlds Collide in Norma Tanega's Psychologically Charged Art
Tanega’s approach to mark-making comes across as stream of consciousness, as if she’s engaged in a conversation with herself.
Books
Solange Launches Free Library of Rare, Out-of-print Books by Black Authors
Starting Monday, readers can borrow one of 50 rare and out-of-print titles, mailed to them completely free of charge, from Saint Heron Library.
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The Guggenheim and The World Around Present an Online Program Focused on Land
Hear from Holly Jean Buck, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, Simon Denny, Elizabeth Hoover, Renee Kemp-Rotan, Joseph Kunkel, and more at this free public event.
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The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Opens Its Doors to the Public for Open Studios
EFA Open Studios offers a portal into the creative habitats of over 65 artists working in Manhattan’s longest-running studio program, including Dannielle Tegeder, Wafaa Bilal, Cui Fei, and Anina Major.
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Editions/Artists’ Books Fair Online Opens on October 18
51 international publishers and galleries showcase their latest editions in prints and artists’ books at this free public fair, which is fully online this year.
Art
The Inexorable Pull of Lisa Yuskavage’s Paintings
This is Yuskavage's great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime.
Art
The Profound Soul of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
While hardly about the pandemic, or any of the other crises so afflicting us, all are invoked in this exhibition, which is also often tender and profoundly soulful.
Art
Contemporary Artists Pay Tribute to Bosch’s Powerful Imagination
These glowing, dynamic artworks reproduce something of Bosch’s chaotic energy, but on an immersive, multi-sensory scale.
Art
Required Reading
This week, addressing a transphobic comedy special on Netflix, the story behind KKK hoods, cultural identity fraud, an anti-Semitic take on modern art, and more.
Opinion
The Fuzzy Line Between Inspiration and Appropriation
A story about a kidney and the drawing of a knee bring up age-old arguments about plagiarism and appropriation.