Art
In His Final Works, Brice Marden Found Freedom
The artist, who passed away this year, finally let go of his desire for control and perfection without surrendering his self-imposed restraints.
New York
Art
A Tantalizing Glimpse Into a Renaissance Art Family Drama
Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico offer hints of whatever subterranean Oedipal struggles played out between them.
Film
A New Film Series in New York Looks Back at Japan's Taisho Period
The Japan Society will screen six iconic films that explore the years 1912–1926, “a new modern era” marked by progressive reforms and a blossoming of the arts.
Art
Artist’s Posters of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Strikes Emerge Across US
Open-source, printable, and designed for guerilla distribution, Ash Lukashevsky’s flyers are “a small way of insisting on Palestinians’ humanity."
News
Hundreds Call Out Museums' Role in Colonialism in March for Palestine
The American Museum of Natural History in New York closed its main entrance as protesters rallied outside the institution, which was barricaded by police.
News
While Others Remain Silent, These Art Spaces Are Vocally Pro-Palestine
Outside of the blue-chip art world, some galleries and nonprofits are speaking out freely and publicly against Israel’s attacks.
News
Climate Activists Disrupt Met Opera's Opening Night
“No opera on a dead planet,” shouted the protesters during the second act of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Guide
12 Art Shows to See in New York This December
This month: The irreverent feminist art of Marta Minujín, Molly Crabapple channels Toulouse-Lautrec, Sonya Kelliher-Combs’s cryptic visual lexicon, and much more.
Art
Celebrated and Unsung Histories of French Abstraction
Is it not social practice to provide an experience in which a different kind of attention and, above all, a different kind of thinking is demanded?
Art
See a Tiny New York City Built From Bark and Leaves
The New York Botanical Garden's annual Holiday Train Show features nearly 200 miniature landmarks, all made of natural materials.
Art
Carla Williams Takes Ownership of the Gaze
Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.
News
Thousands March to American Museum of Natural History in Pro-Gaza Protest
Activists called out the museum’s holdings of Native remains while denouncing “the genocide of Indigenous Palestinians.”