Art
A Meditation on Identity through Chickenheads and Chains
LaKela Brown's plaster-cast sculptures represent the common trappings and symbols of her 1990s hip hop-flavored upbringing.
Art
Art
San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn
A new transit center filled with on-site public art opens in San Francisco.
Art
The History and Present-Day Reality of Salvadoran Art & Activism in LA
In conjunction with an exhibit on the Salvadoran Civil War, The Mistake Room will hold a conversation on Salvadoran Art & Activism.
Art
A Series of Radical Films By and About Women
BAMcinématek presents Women at Work: Radical Creativity, a series of historical narratives and experimental video works by women filmmakers.
Art
Masks and Rural Life in Gauri Gill's Art
Through paper mâché maskes made by traditional artists in west-central India, Gauri Gill creates a series of stunning photographs on display at MoMA PS1.
Art
A Flood Along the Fringes of Art
With the site-specific installation FLOOD, artist and architect Mike Nesbit seeks to interact with the people and history of locations well outside of the typical exhibition space.
Art
Thornton Dial and Looking Good for the Price
A 1993 assemblage by Thornton Dial exemplifies exactly why he belongs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 20th Century Modern and Contemporary galleries, without any caveats like “southern,” “folk,” or “outsider” typically assigned to the artist.
Art
Nevin Aladağ, Kimsooja, and Nari Ward Create Visual Metaphors for Migration, Exile, and Belonging
Three artists tackle notions of blended culture and identity in Worlds Otherwise Hidden at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Art
Searching for Humor in America's Machismo Freefall
Laugh Back's comedic timing is so regrettably tardy that its punchlines about Trumpism and American masculinity fail to land.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a couple's de Kooning secret, Milton Glaser brands Trump's "Space Force," A. K. Burns' first public sculpture, art in a state of emergency, African contemporary art since 1992, and more.
Art
Painting in The Age of Anxiety
I have an innate distrust of work that has a whiff of nostalgia drifting off its surface, whether it is for Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, or, further back, Albert Pinkham Ryder.
Art
Faithful to Putin, One Hundred Percent
Don't trust what you read. Don't trust what you see.