Art
Rachelle Dang's Meditation on Past and Present
If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang's pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.
New York
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
Art
Robert Rauschenberg and the Men on the Moon
Rauschenberg was among the artists invited by NASA to attend the launch of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that landed two Americans on the moon 50 years ago this month.
Art
How T.C. Cannon Redefined American Indian Identity
Cannon's art is not about identity politics, but the layers and contradictions of self-representation in a society that valorizes assimilation and whiteness.
Art
The Music at the Intersection Between Two Cultures
The Moon Represents My Heart looks at Chinese American musicians who picked up the culture they lost and re-shaped it into something new.
Art
Building New Worlds Out of Grids
The work of Emma Soucek and the late Maddy Parrasch at Safe Gallery not only braves the space of the grid, but also revels in its inconsistencies and hiccups.
Art
Disinformation and the Death Star: The Legacy of Gretchen Bender
Gretchen Bender’s work faded into obscurity following her meteoric 1980’s career. A posthumous retrospective in New York demonstrates why she deserves to be more than “a footnote to the Pictures Generation.”
In Brief
Journalist Nellie Bly Will Receive a Monument on the Grounds of the Asylum She Helped Close
Almost 132 years later, the intrepid reporter will return to the scene of the story that made her a hailed heroine of journalism as a permanent monument.
News
Circulating a New Currency to Build Community Across New York City
Valor y Cambio (Value and Change), a new project by artist and scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner, gives participants newly designed "Pesos of Puerto Rico" to use in businesses around the city in exchange for their stories.
Performance
A Strange Loop Stages the Double Consciousness of Being Black and Queer
Michael R. Jackson’s subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist's fight against society's expectations of what he should be.
Announcement
The Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition Say Ever Moves Opens July 20
Join the college to celebrate the culminating work of the MFA Class of 2020. On view until July 28 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook.
In Brief
Inside an Ai Weiwei-Designed Home in Upstate New York, Selling for $5.25 Million
A glimpse inside the Tsai Residence in Ancram, New York, the only private residence designed by the artist in the United States.