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A Gallery Stroll Through Rome
ROME — Mentioning Rome to most people evokes, in no particular order: ancient ruins, stunning palazzi, romantic dinners, and good weather.
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From Brooklyn to Russia’s Ural Region, Artists Cross Political and Geographic Borders
Exhibitions generated by independent curators have grown over the past two decades in number and significance.
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Coming Soon to Manhattan, the First Independent Movie Theater in a Decade
It was August when news broke about Metrograph — the first independent movie theater to open in New York City in over a decade.
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The Bawdy History of Medieval Playing Cards
Playing cards arrived in Europe from Asia sometime in the 14th century, and by 1367 they had their first citywide ban in Bern, Switzerland.
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Confronting Homelessness Close to Home, with Help from Martha Rosler
SEATTLE — “Home Prices Bring Smiles, Tears.” “Anti-Homeless Attacks Won’t Solve Problem.” When I saw these headlines running across the Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly newspapers earlier this month, a single sentence flashed through my mind, on repeat: “Housing is a human right.”
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Imperialism and Its Discontents at Tate Britain
LONDON — Artist and Empire contains something for everyone, ranging from fierce pride to loathing, as well as everything in between.
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More than Meets the Eye
If you see lots of work by different artists, you are going to make your own connections.
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Firestarter: Otto Piene’s Elemental Art
The victors and the vanquished approached the development of avant-garde art in the aftermath of World War II in markedly different ways.
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A Soviet Monument’s Enduring Power Over Russian Artists
MOSCOW — The kinds of memories that our museums and monuments trigger are never about remembering the past as much as they are about imagining the future.
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A 19th-Century Cheyenne Warrior's Drawings of His Life as a POW
Some of the best-known 19th-century ledger art was created by Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Caddo prisoners of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, following the Red River Wars.
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The Vibrant Art that Emerged from Socialist Yugoslavia
NOTTINGHAM, UK — Between the early 1960s and mid-1980s, the country once known as Yugoslavia was an anomaly: a socialist state which allowed free travel to the West and promoted “self-management” rather than bureaucratic repression; a dictatorship which promoted decentralization and free expression.
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Six Decades of Betye Saar’s Personal, Political, and Mystical Art
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There are few artists who have been able to become a household name in the art world and still maintain a modesty to their person and in their work.