Opinion
The Unseen Depths of Winslow Homer's “The Gulf Stream”
In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer's masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
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Man Smears Mona Lisa With Cake at the Louvre
"Think of the planet,” said the vandal, who claimed to be a climate activist and was disguised as a woman in a wheelchair.
Art
Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder
An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains.
Art
Stories That Need to Be Told
Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.
Art
Kojo Marfo’s Portraits Depict the Cracks in Polite Society
The artist’s style blends aesthetic and cultural elements from Ghana, London, and New York’s graffiti scenes.
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Margaret Atwood Protests Book Banning With Fireproof Copy of The Handmaid's Tale
The fire-resistant copy will be auctioned to raise funds for PEN America.
Art
Who Discovered Eva Hesse?
A new exhibition focuses on Hesse's works on paper, and the way they demonstrate the role of drawing in the famed sculptor's process.
Art
On Kandinsky’s Spiritual Relationship With Music
Author M. T. Anderson walks us through a sonic gallery of Vasily Kandinsky's musical influences, which guided the painter's pursuit of art that reveals a mystical, inner truth.
Art
Mexican Artists and Designers Take Over Rockefeller Center
Intervención/Intersección, the latest venture from MASA Galería, is a humming subversion of what public art can look like.
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Speaks Out From Prison Ahead of Trial
"I am an artist and a human being struggling to get out of this unjust prison, but every day my love of free and honest art grows firmer," the persecuted artist said in a statement from a maximum-security prison in Cuba.
Art
A Parent's Guide to Navigating Biennials
Seeing the Toronto Biennial of Art through my daughter’s eyes helped me push past some of its challenges by experiencing it on a primordial level.
Art
Notes and Pictures From Frieze New York
I won't bother you with talk about how obscenely decadent and out of touch the Frieze art fair is. And yet...