Books
Esther Pressoir Is the Coolest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1927, Pressoir carried 30 pounds of art-making supplies on a bike ride from France to Italy. It was just the beginning of an inimitable artistic journey.
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Why Is It So Easy to Buy a Human Skull Online?
Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham’s These Were People Once mines the illicit online sale of human remains and the social media algorithms that enable it.
Opinion
Why Native Artists Are Reclaiming the Whirling Log
The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.
Art
The Geometry in Motion of Nancy Holt
A survey at Gropius Bau frames Holt as an artist committed to the human body’s actions and dimensions, and its perceptual and cognitive boundaries.
Art
The Serious Joy of Joyce J. Scott’s Beaded Art
The decorative allure of Scott’s textile and beaded creations seduces viewers into her sharp critiques of racism, misogyny, and other social ills.
Opinion
How Modern-Day Christian Iconoclasts Lost Their Heads
The vandal who beheaded Esther Strauss’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary in labor disregarded centuries-old depictions of the mother of God as just a mother.
Opinion
Did Auguste Rodin Steal From Camille Claudel?
What went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor’s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin’s studio.
Art
How a Father-Daughter Duo Changed the Course of Textile Art
May and William Morris’s fascinating and complicated relationship deserves to be studied in its own right.
Books
Celebrating James Baldwin's Radical Beauty
In God Made My Face, artists and critics reflect on seeing themselves through the late metamorphic writer’s work.
Art
Hildegard von Bingen’s Eternal Garden
The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists.
Art
The Queer Utopias of Florine Stettheimer
Though the artist’s own sexuality is unknown, the freedom, playful sensuality, and gender euphoria in her work resonate with present ideas of queer community.
Art
Indigenous Artists Make Themselves Seen at the Thomas Cole Site
An exhibition curated by Scott Manning Stevens moves Native peoples to the forefront of historical depictions of the Hudson Valley and elsewhere.