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Paula Rego’s Animal Farm
To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.
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The Past and Futures of African Metal Arts
SIGHTLINES increases the visibility of African art, bringing metal arts from the 19th and 20th centuries together with works by contemporary African artists.
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Ludovic Nkoth’s Fleeting Feelings of Home
Through his practice, Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth continuously grasps to connect threads of home as it remains a shape-shifting and ever-moving target.
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Finding the Soul of Orange County
Artists Susy Bielak and Fred Schmalz sifted through archives and interviewed community members to tell a more complete and complex story of the region.
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Peek Into David Zwirner’s New Chelsea Offices
Open House New York offers free access to 334 sites across the boroughs, from Zwirner’s redesigned office spaces to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
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Ottawa Bread Factory Turned Artists’ Studios Faces Uncertain Future
Members of the nonprofit collective Enriched Bread Artists are struggling to find affordable spaces as a $750-million development looms on the horizon.
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Deborah Roberts’s Elegy for Lost Innocence
Roberts centers the beauty and vulnerability of Black children, which is often seized from them at a young age via systemic violence in the United States.
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After Flood Damage, Gowanus Artists Carry On
In the wake of last month’s storm, Gowanus Open Studios plowed ahead, using the event to fundraise for artists whose work was damaged.
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Sexual Liberation From Pasolini to Bruce LaBruce
LaBruce’s The Visitor shows that physical desire can lead the way to something more as his characters redefine themselves in new, potentially radical ways.
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Required Reading
This week, censorship of Palestinian journalists, early 2000s fashion’s healing powers, the uncertain future of Barcelona’s beaches, and why is there a sport called “conkers”?
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Max Beckmann’s Singular Path
His attitude toward his fellow humans ricocheted between admiration and affection, frustration, fury, and horror — at times all in a single painting.
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The Many Afterlives of Jewish Zines
Writer Chava Shapiro’s Jewish Zine Archive spans dozens of rare publications collected over two decades.