Art
Seeing Robert Rauschenberg for the First Time, All Over Again
Rauschenberg gave artists an enormous sense of freedom and permission to create anything they could dream of, so long as they were earnest in their ideas and execution.
New York
News
Pro-Union Protesters Picket MoMA Gala Honoring Starbucks Chairwoman
As organizing efforts sweep across Starbucks stores nationwide, the company has repeatedly been accused of “union-busting.”
Art
Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe
Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.
Film
A Frightening Doc About the NYC Subway
End of the Line captures five years of failed efforts to fix the city’s disastrously bad train infrastructure.
News
Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
Film
What Documentaries to Catch at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival
This year’s iteration includes titles about AOC, the making of movie sex scenes, and what’s happened to the “stars” of older documentaries.
News
The Met Hosts an Exhibition of Employees' Art, Open to the Public for the First Time
More than 450 workers at the museum contributed works to the beloved exhibition, from security guards and technicians to librarians, registrars, and volunteers.
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Announcement
Celebrate the Art and Science of Edible Plants at Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden’s latest exhibition focuses on how food choices impact our world and features special picnic tables designed by Bronx artists.
News
$2M Gold Tabernacle Stolen From Brooklyn Church
Also, an angel statue was decapitated and the eucharist thrown over the altar.
Art
Marta Minujín Looks Ugliness Right in the Face
The Argentine artist’s early Informalist works, conjuring decay and degradation, are difficult to look at but deserving of our gaze.
Art
Siobhan Liddell Presents a Poem of a Show
Her latest exhibition is spare, strange, intentional in its moves, and economical in its means.
News
NY District Attorney's Office Seizes Allegedly Looted Antiquities From the Met
The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.