Art
Rotimi Fani-Kayode Captures the Abundant Glow of Black Queer Life
In Tranquility of Communion, soul-stirring photographs blend Yoruba cosmologies, queer desire, and Baroque theatricality.
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Film
The 58th New York Film Festival, Now on the Big Screen
With quarantine restrictions now lifted, the festival’s virtual slate from last year is now getting play in theaters.
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Exhibitions at CCS Bard Explore Art at Its Most Intimate, Playful, and Defiant
Now open in the Hudson Valley, two new exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art highlight the intimacy of works on paper and the under-examined “Pattern and Decoration” movement.
Art
Good Vibrations and Milford Graves’s Healing Harmonics
Graves spent nearly 40 years investigating the healing potential of music.
Art
Hunter MFA Grads Mull the Fluid Nature of Time
Presented online and in-person, We Were Already Gone brings together 26 graduates. Here are our highlights.
News
Vamos Al Met? Artist-designed Shirt Supports Latinx Art Acquisitions
Sales of Miguel Luciano’s “El Met” merchandise will help fund acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art
Painting Abstractly in the Midst of Unending Crises
Alyse Rosner is grappling with the question of how to make an abstract painting reflect both the personal and collective.
Art
Where Painting Can Live
Jason Stopa's desire to infuse his paintings with joy mixes sophistication and innocence without privileging either one.
Art
Alix Le Méléder’s Rules of the Game
The French artist’s decision to stop painting in 2011 grew out of her work’s internal logic.
Art
Who Owns the Logo of the Lesbian Avengers, Decades Later?
After Gap released a shirt with the group's 1990s logo, a controversy revealed complex questions about the visual language of activism.
Art
Electric Images: Ming Smith’s Transcendent Photography
Evidence, the inaugural show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, emphasizes Smith’s track record as a photographer who both loves and riffs on the language of her medium.
News
Why Is a Racist Roosevelt Statue Still Standing in New York City?
A redesign proposal approved today involves adding a bronze outline of the statue’s former pedestal outside the American Museum of Natural History.