The question asked by some working-class communities in New York City regarding environmental art projects is, “Okay, but what about the people?”
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23 Artists on Making It in San Francisco
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life examines how artists stay — or don’t — in an area with steep rents, scarce studio space, and a high cost of living
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The Art World Isn’t Enough
Albuquerque artist sheri crider uses her work to transform people’s lives and create actionable change in criminal justice reform.
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A Border Artist’s Vision of Inheritance and Trauma
Working between San Diego and Tijuana, Griselda Rosas plumbs the stories of conquest, colonization, and conversion in her latest solo show.
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In Manila, a Once-Lost Masterpiece Is Back on Public View
The rediscovery of Juan Luna’s masterwork “Hymen, oh Hyménée!” offer a fresh opportunity to contemplate the role he played in the early formation of Philippine politics and culture.
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David Amico Brings LA’s Streets Into the Gallery
For years, Amico has driven around Los Angeles early in the morning and taken photographs in industrial neighborhoods of walls and surfaces.
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What Would a Truly Critical Picasso Exhibition Look Like?
A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract art.
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The Fight to Preserve Denver’s Chicano Murals
The city’s murals are more than cultural aesthetics; they are living texts, a multimodal composition based on tlacuilolitztli, the Aztec concept of writing.
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Akiko Stehrenberger’s Explosive Movie Poster Art
Stehrenberger’s ability to capture the essence of a film in a single image has made her one of the most sought-after poster designers in the industry.
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An Indigenous MFA Program Moves Beyond “Mastery”
Beyond Mastery illustrates how the Institute of American Indian Arts is liberating and expanding truly beyond those expectations of Indigenous art.
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Turiya Adkins Flirts With the Void
In the art of Turiya Adkins, Black people have long defied gravity, our existence has long depended on our uncanny capacity for flight.
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Constructing Puerto Rican Identity in the 1950s Through Craft, Lists, and Fairs
What untold stories do these crafts hold that can expand and question narratives regarding knowledge, identity, and aesthetics?
