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The Crossword Grid’s Geometry of Memory
Cameron Granger pays homage to his grandmother’s rituals of puzzle-solving while rejecting the constrictive grids of urban planning.
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A Pop Art Vision of Glitter and Decay
Kathleen Ryan’s large, blingy sculptures of rotting fruit are both semaphores and sirens, warning of our cultural ruin while beckoning us to come closer.
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Uncovered Medieval Tattoos Flesh Out a Misunderstood Practice
Archaeologists discovered the second known example of Medieval Nubian tattoos in Sudan, bringing us closer to unraveling the art form’s longer history.
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Artists Shine a Light on Chicago’s Complex Ecosystem
Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for.
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How Friars Changed the Art of the Renaissance
A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy inspired Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion.
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The Gustatory Pleasures of Rolando Briseño
The artist’s works interweave regional dining histories, including the Mesoamerican and the American, in a call to un-Whitewash history.
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Required Reading
This week: photojournalists amid California’s wildfires, Leonora Carrington in Mexico, Black Philly artists sew reusable pads, an AI lawsuit tracker, and can fiction make men better people?
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The Artist Who Ushered Us From Medieval to Modern
Jacopo Ligozzi gave visual expression to the developing myth of empirical objectivity, of being able to successfully collect, measure, analyze, and categorize.
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There Are No Art Hierarchies in the KAWS Collection
With over 300 works on paper, plus paintings, sculptures, and furniture, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection includes work by artists of every stripe.
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The Eternal Dance of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a bit of a bridge between them.
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Joseph Beuys Predicted the “Manosphere”
Beuys tackled masculinity through humor and irreverence — but the subjects he parodied are increasingly a fixation for an oppressive segment of the population.
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Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future
In the artist’s futuristic world of Azadistan, textiles become socio-political tools that sketch a vision of cultural expression beyond technological frameworks.