Art
Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook
Hilton Als’s collection of materials, art, and ephemera isn’t meant to elucidate Morrison’s work but ponder the novelist’s impact on American culture.
New York
News
POC-led Arts Orgs In NYC Call for $100M to Address "Cultural Inequity"
HueArts NYC, a new citywide initiative, hopes to secure greater support for institutions led by and serving people of color.
Art
Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination
Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.
Art
Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth's art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.
Film
Amidst Renovations, the Chelsea Hotel Dreams of Its Old Self
The documentary Dreaming Walls contrasts the New York icon’s glory days with the current residents’ struggle to preserve the building.
Art
Carrie Mae Weems Assesses History in Real-Time
A tenuous relationship exists in Weems’s work between glamour and guts; yet neither attribute suffers on behalf of the other.
Art
Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium
Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread.
Art
Famakan Magassa's Virtuous Vice
The Malian painter’s first solo exhibition in New York muses on the desires and compulsions that guide us toward enlightenment — and occasionally get us into trouble.
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Announcement
Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR Is Now Open at the Wellin Museum of Art
In his first solo museum show, Klos continues exploring the intersections between the human form, the natural world, and the built environment.
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Announcement
SVA Artist Residency Programs Are On-campus and Online This Summer
April 1 is the priority application deadline for residencies and intensives in studio art, technology, performance, social practice, design, and more.
News
Carmen Herrera, Celebrated Cuban-American Geometric Artist, Is Dead At 106
The long-overlooked artist received her first museum survey at age 83.
Art
Deborah Jack Explores the Shared Histories of the Body and Landscape
A current retrospective highlights Jack’s insistence on photography’s capacity to express stories held in the environment rather than the archive.