Art
Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream
Hugh Hayden’s works combine elements of spaces in which Black Americans gather, heal, and memorialize.
New York
Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for August 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Art
Florida's Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters
The Highwaymen’s paintings are an environmental time capsule for a state highly threatened by the climate crisis.
Art
A Photographer’s Otherworldly Portrayal of Créolité
In Widline Cadet’s photographs, the motherland haunts.
News
A Protest Against Purdue Settlement Transforms Courthouse Landscape Into a Graveyard
Activists from advocacy groups PAIN Sackler and Truth Pharm denounced Judge Robert D. Drain's "bankruptcy scam.”
Music
When Live Music Brings the Beat Back Into Your Body
A concert at the Cloisters shed the Met’s stuffiness, broadening what performance can be.
Film
After Decades of Repression, Bill Gunn’s Work Finally Breaks Free
Because he refused to play to white hegemony, Gunn’s films were often poorly understood.
Art
Huguette Caland’s Vivacious Takes on the Female Form
Robust, voluptuous, and sexually frank, the works in Tête-à-Tête showcase Caland’s outré sense of humor and vivacity.
Art
A Printmaker Memorializes New York City’s Architecture
“Manhattan is my easel,” said Austin Thomas.
Art
Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
Art
Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
Art
Facing Catastrophe With Calm
Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.