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Techno-Gothic Sculptures of Violence
In his latest exhibition, Belfast-born sculptor Tim Shaw explores the troubles of Northern Ireland, global terrorism, abuses of power, and artificial intelligence.
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The Baroque Splendor of Christianity Meets East Village Bohemia
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's glittery assemblages point toward both his working-class Catholic upbringing in New Jersey and New York tenement life.
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Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution
Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.
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Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
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The Women Who Modeled for Édouard Manet, from Artists to Lovers
An introduction to six of the women who modeled for the masterpieces that earned Manet his canonical reputation.
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Understanding the Migrant Caravan in the Context of Imperial Plunder and Dispossession
The publication of Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy’s report recommending the restitution of stolen African objects and the approach of what is called a “migrant caravan” toward the US is not a coincidence.
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Porous Definitions of Home and Belonging at the Santa Fe SITE Biennial
This year, the biennial has carved a conversation about displacement in the Americas, using art to question whose history we revisit.
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Artist's Signs Guide Pedestrians to a Hidden River in Queens
Artist Cody Ann Herrmann's How do you get to Flushing Creek? project involves wayfinding signs and free maps to guide New Yorkers to one of its most overlooked waterways.
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A 1920s Polish Play Is Reimagined for the California Desert
A new play at CalArts sets Witkacy's The Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in the unending landscape of Death Valley.
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LA’s Venerated New Beverly Cinema Returns with Classic Programming
This month the theater officially announced it would resume operation in December, and its schedule ably shows off its programming sensibility.
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At the ICA Philadelphia, Visitors Seek the Insights of a Beloved Security Guard
Linda Harris represents the position that you don’t need to know everything about a work of art to comment on what it’s doing or how it makes you feel.
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Betye Saar Washes the Congenial Veneer Off a Sordid History
Saar's work is a poignant depiction of this nation's fraught history of race relations and gender politics, and this exhibition demonstrates the need for more major retrospectives of her.