Books
Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys
The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US.
Featured
Film
Blackfeet Documentary Wins Climate Justice Award at BlackStar Festival
Narrated by Lily Gladstone, the new film chronicles the tribe’s efforts to rekindle the traditional practice of stewarding a wild buffalo population.
News
In Shocking Move, Videographer Who Filmed Vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Leaders’ Homes Charged With Hate Crime
Press freedom advocacy organizations expressed alarm at the decision to arrest and charge 32-year-old independent journalist Samuel Seligson.
Opinion
DEI Initiatives Are Dying Down. Now What?
Tips for arts organizations on how to get it right through times of inequity and unrest.
Opinion
Lessons on Black Art Writing From Toni Morrison
Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding.
Guide
8 New York and Online Shows to See in August
Make sure not to miss shows featuring Jenny Holzer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huong Dodinh, and others, plus a lot of dogs.
Art
The Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.
Opinion
The Olympics Drag Scene Got Christian Art History Right
Critics of the opening ceremony betrayed their ignorance of Christianity’s pagan roots — and the real reason behind their ire toward the show.
Books
Art-World Fiction We’re Reading This Summer
Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art.
Books
The Enslaved People Who Wrote Down the New Testament
Art history has long concealed the scribes who put swaths of the Bible and early Christian writings on paper.
Art
Three-Time Olympic Fencer’s Vibrant Photos of Athletic Diversity
Enzo Lefort's stylized portraits of his teammates are now on view alongside works by other Olympian artists in Paris.
Podcast
Skeleton Deities and Political Mind Games at the Venice Biennale
Hrag Vartanian and AX Mina discuss what worked, what didn’t, and what drew political protests at the “Olympics of the art world.”