Art
Antiquity With a Side of Mischief
In Plato's Closet, artist Timothy Hull gestures to the opportunities for creative play and repurposing that looking backward can pose.
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A Former Japanese Princess Is Volunteering at the Met
Mako Komuro, who shed her noble title in 2017, is working on a show of Japanese hanging-scroll paintings at the New York museum.
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective Opens at El Museo del Barrio
This is the largest exhibition to date on the artist, activist, educator, and founder of New York City’s El Museo del Barrio.
Art
Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Kwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other.
Art
The Eastern European Artists Who Moved Forward by Starting From Scratch
For the five artists in From Scratch, starting from the elemental meant raising existential questions on the use of language and humor or irony in art.
Art
Kia LaBeija’s Photographs Tell a Story as Multifaceted as the Artist Herself
The photographer chronicles her life as a queer woman of color born with HIV.
Art
Is It an Artificial Paradise or an Artificial Hell or Both?
Elliott Green seems to be espousing that landscapes are living forms governed by rules we cannot fathom — they appear to be welcoming us, but we might be wrong.
Art
An Artist's Monument to the Monotony of Images
Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images.
News
As COVID Cases Surge in NYC, Some Museums Are Lifting Their Mask Mandates
The Whitney and MoMA are the first two major art museums to stop enforcing masking and vaccination.
News
New York Public Library Is Making Banned Books Accessible Across the Country
In response to the unprecedented surge in book bans, "Books for All" will offer four titles nationwide on NYPL’s e-reader app.
Film
Dora García Documents Networks of Feminist Survival in Mexico City
In two shorts showing as part of García’s exhibition at Amant, she explores the unfinished revolution of diplomat Alexandra Kollontai.
Art
Marina Abramović Is Suspended Between Self-Sacrifice and Spectacle
Abramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood.