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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
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Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
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Humorous and Disturbing Self-Portraits Packaged for an Instagram Audience
Obscuring his identity with motorized toys and raw meat, David Henry Brown "Nobody" Jr. seeks to liberate himself from the ways capitalism tends to dehumanize us.
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A 19th-Century Guide to Euclid's Geometry Reborn as an Interactive Site
Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.
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How Women Have Been Constricted by Design
As Annica Cuppetelli's research has revealed, contemporary women are still routinely subjected to garment-based forms of discrimination.
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Descending into Lee Bontecou’s Apocalyptic Voids
Like her massive wall reliefs, Bontecou's works on paper evoke the world as fragile, teetering on the brink of total calamity.
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Women Artists Shatter the Stereotype of the “Valley Girl”
Valley Girl Redefined aims to challenge that very limited depiction of women from “the Valley.”
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An Indigenous Artist Captures the Racial Violence at Standing Rock
Jim Denomie's paintings present an emotional response to the violence of white supremacy that emerged during the DAPL conflict.
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A Curator’s Work to Resist Erasure and Reconfigure Identities
A reflection on the tensions inherent to interpreting art and poetry in challenging political times.
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Refashioning the Kimono, from Fine Art to Pop Culture
Kimono Refashioned asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.
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Hear from Judithe Hernández, a Crucial Figure of LA’s Chicano Arts Movement
Originally gaining prominence as a muralist, she became the fifth and only female member of the art collective Los Four.
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An Indigenous Artist Collective that Raises the Bar
By offering a space for projects like R.I.S.E, Recess vitally promotes the idea of creation as a necessarily social process.