Art
A Striking Installation Reveals How Ableist Design Can Be
In Emily Barker’s exhibition, scaled-up cabinets tower above the viewer and a rug, six inches thick, poses an insurmountable barrier for a wheelchair.
Art
Art
The Parisian Bourgeoisie According to Félix Vallotton
In an age that celebrated the avant-garde and the so-called vie bohème, Swiss-born painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton deftly demonstrated that everyday, middle-class people were just as worthy of artistic representation.
Art
In Las Vegas, an Artist's Neon-Tinged Compositions Riff on Social Media Aesthetics
Though social media and the artsy sensibilities of ad marketing are cribbing the same aesthetic ideas, the details of Mikayla Whitmore's photography are distinctly unique and homegrown.
Art
From Yemen to the Netherlands, a Photographer Focuses on Migration and Statelessness
With her project, The Passport, Thana Faroq documents the lives not just of stateless individuals, but also her own escaping conflict and later settling abroad.
Art
Reflecting on Shirin Neshat’s Career With the Artist’s Words
Neshat shares why she moved away from still photography to video, and why she thinks her work feels “very relevant” today.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Uber and Hyundai create a new air taxi prototype, an unlikely figure helped make the Met Museum more democratic, another look at Leonardo's role in "Salvator Mundi," a list of Black artists and writers in Appalachia, and more.
Art
When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art
Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
Art
A Private Memoir, Pried Open
Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? is the story of a difficult and painful redemption through art.
Art
When You Can't Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect
This exhibition at ICA/Boston presents works by 20 contemporary artists — many of them immigrants or members of the African diaspora — that highlight current migration events.
Art
Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
Art
Mondrian Before Abstraction
Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.
Art
Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair
With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.