Art
The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition
I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort.
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Art
What Can We Learn From Italy's Early Leftist Modernists?
The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible?
Art
Julia Fish's Architectural Abstractions Are Joyful Enigmas
Fish's artworks elude every attempt to enclose them in language, and they resist explanation. They become something only a painting can be.
Film
Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth
The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.
News
After Backlash, SVA Galleries Withdraws From Show Accused of "Exploiting Ukrainian Pain"
An open call for submissions to the show said artworks could not contain documentary images of the war and highlighted the experience of Russian artists.
News
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Proposes Slashing Culture Funds by $72 Million
If approved, it would be a major hit for the DCLA, which would have its overall budget cut by a third in 2023.
Art
Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief
What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.
News
Iconic Warhol Marilyn Could Fetch $200 Million, Set Records for 20th-Century Art
Christie's says the sale will benefit a foundation "dedicated to improving the lives of children."
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Afro-Canadian Artist Sharon Norwood’s Drawing Room Opens at ISCP
Norwood’s first solo exhibition in New York explores decoration, Black craft histories, and the politics of beauty, labor, and race.
Art
Surrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its Edge
Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden's Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling.
Art
Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner's Shapeshifting Sculpture
By approaching sculpture as an open-ended experience of embodiment, Larner provokes us to repeatedly lose and locate ourselves in her work.
News
With the World on Fire, the Glitterati Prepares for Met Gala 2022
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” follows last year’s theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” Confused? So are we.