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Artists Share Their Studio Playlists
Chimento Contemporary hosts a live recording of artist Pia Pack's podcast What Artists Listen To, with Zeal Harris, Alexandra Grant, Shizu Saldamando, and Cole James.
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A Portrait of Black Life in Florida, One Neighborhood at a Time
“The histories of Black communities in the United States have been undervalued, suppressed, erased throughout time.”
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The Beauty and Anxiety of Seeing Myself, and My Partner, in a Portrait
I forget if we asked Danny Ferrell to paint us or if it was his idea, but I was surprised to feel so much when I saw the painting for the first time at an art fair.
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Two Chicago Exhibitions Elaborate on Emptiness and Space
Though the two shows examine the void in distinctly different ways, only one gets it right.
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An Aerial Dance with an Abraham Cruzvillegas Sculpture
At the Kitchen, choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will perform an improvised aerial dance with Cruzvillegas's suspended sculpture, with musical accompaniment by Andrés García Nestitla.
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A Message to the Future from Artists on the Front Lines of Sea-Level Rise
In Miami, sea-level rise is not a science fictional future — it’s a present-day reality that artists must reckon with.
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How Corporations Harness — and Hijack — the Idea of the Museum
The trendy adoption of the word “museum” has the potential to undermine the trust placed in cultural institutions, perhaps altering our relationship to culture, art, and commerce in the process.
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Richard Mosse Uses Military Equipment to Show the Reach of the Surveillance State
The photographer uses a heat-sensing camera to turn a critical eye towards governments’ insufficient responses to a humanitarian crisis.
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Sondra Perry's First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner's "The Slave Ship"
Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black people.
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Design as a Strategy of Disobedience and Dissent
Design, according to a public talk in Brooklyn, has the potential to reflect and even remedy pressing social problems.
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The European Avant-Garde in Hollywood, from Brecht to Eisenstein
Artist and filmmaker Zoe Beloff explores the Hollywood legacies of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and other members of the European avant-garde.
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Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.