Art
Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut
Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.
New York
Art
Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting
With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.
Art
Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.
Art
Coping with Climate Change
The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.
Art
No One Owns Basquiat, Not Even Peter Brant
Brant has cogently influenced the legacy of Basquiat on several fronts, but the artist and his work remain gloriously defiant.
News
A Heritage Center for Black History in Brooklyn Struggles to Remain Open
The museum, which preserves the history of one of the first free Black communities in New York, says that if a new crowdfunding campaign does not yield $200,000 before July, it will be forced to shut its doors for lack of resources.
Art
The Leonard Cohen Show Is a Shallow Response to the Musician’s Legacy
An archival show has to be judged, in part, by the depth to which it mines the archive.
Film
A Romance Horror Film Spotlights the Fraught Politics of Eating Meat in India
Aamis can be simultaneously read as a slow-burning forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
Performance
A Performance Festival by and for Disabled Artists
A glimpse into the impressive breadth and variety of performances and lived experiences of disability.
Art
How Bodies in Peril Might Help Us See Our Humanity
Perilous Bodies, an exhibition at the Ford Foundation's newly opened gallery, suggests the inescapable vulnerability of embodiment.
Art
Learn About the Impact of Punk on American Design
A group of punk experts will discuss the impact of punk graphic arts this Thursday at the Museum of Arts and Design.
Art
Artificial Intelligence as a Godlike Tool for Experimentation
The AI-powered art exhibition Forging the Gods portrays the interaction between humans and machines in a nuanced manner.