Books
The 18th-century English Craze for One-Eyed Portraits
Most eye miniatures were exchanged between lovers, though they were also given to close friends and family members.
Featured
Art
A Collector of Antiques Asks: "Can Something Be Racist and Also Be Beautiful?"
In the Blactiquing Space, curator and collector Kevin Jones presents deeply fraught objects with emotion, connection, and care.
News
“Truly Heartbreaking”: Osage Nation Decries Sale of Cave Containing Indigenous Art
Scholars have called it “the most important rock art site in North America” on account of 290 prehistoric glyphs adorning its walls.
News
The Best Thing About This Year’s Met Gala Are the Memes
The Met Gala moved forward last night with the laughably dystopian theme of “American Independence.”
Film
There Are Now Not One But Two Documentaries About the Salvator Mundi Saga
Both The Lost Leonardo and Savior for Sale dig into how museums and galleries are not merely complicit with the unregulated art-industrial complex, but are necessary to it.
Art
With a Medieval Flair, Spring Break Art Show Celebrates the Eccentric
From bread sculptures to fabric galore, the pent up energy of the pandemic was overflowing at this grassroots art fair that continues to wow.
Art
Beer With a Painter: Pat Adams
Adams finds beauty in the earth and nature through layers of complication, chaos, and everyday labor.
Art
Who Owns the Earth?
This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art.
Art
What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature?
Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly.
Art
Charting Black Resistance in the UK Since the 1940s
A carefully curated exhibition at ICA London lays bare the insidious nature of the subjugation of Black people in Britain.
Art
When Artists Are Hackers
The question is, what is being hacked?
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2021
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.