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A Cuban Artist, Anthropologist, and Cosmologist’s Journey to West Africa
The exhibition showcases the unique space the Cuban artist José Bedia occupies: concurrently artist, anthropologist, and religious practitioner.
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An Ominous Score for Antarctica's Collapsing Glaciers
In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica's Larsen C ice shelf.
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Giant Cuttlefish Make Sweet Love in New York's City Hall Park
Katja Novitskova has unleashed enlarged and playfully juxtaposed scientific images throughout the Lower Manhattan park.
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Required Reading
This week, Basquiat is remembered by those close to him, art school bs, US political comics today, how a Houston museum prepared for a hurricane, what artists should do with waterlogged belongings, and more.
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Stanley Twardowicz, a Neglected Minor Master
The unsung Abstract Expressionist wanted his paintings to show none of the effort he put into making them.
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Rosalyn Drexler Does Not Look Back
Since the 1960s, Drexler has continued to make powerful art and to go her own way.
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A President’s River of Lies
The Paris Accord has been declared irrelevant.
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An Artist Who Conveys Messages from the Dead
Self-taught artist George Kornegay created found-object environments for communing with the spirit world.
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The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
Rama's paintings confront us with empowered female sexuality and insanity.
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Tend to Your Goats as the Apocalypse Approaches in This Meditative Game
Where The Goats Are starts as an idyllic farming game, but the horrors of the post-apocalyptic setting can't be ignored.
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Artist Turns Police Cruiser into a Tribute to Law & Order Detective Lennie Briscoe
For "ORBACH1," Brandon Bird transformed a formerly black 2008 police cruiser found on Craigslist into an airbrushed rolling masterpiece commemorating his hero.
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What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it's both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.