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Lightscape Returns to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the Holidays
More than a million lights and 16 light sculptures sparkle along the reimagined mile-long winter trail.
New York
News
Brooklyn Navy Yard Seeks Public Art Proposals
Kings County artists can submit their best ideas around the theme of "Our Brooklyn" for a temporary installation in 2025.
Interview
Ron Norsworthy’s Revolution of Queer Black Male Self-Love
Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it.
Film
Recreating Nellie Mae Rowe’s Dreamlike World
A documentary screening in NYC this week combines animation, interviews, and archival material to tell the self-taught artist’s fascinating story.
Art
An Indigenous Modernist Artist Finally Gets Her Due
An exhibition at The Met celebrates the work of self-taught artist Mary Sully, who neither exhibited nor profited from her work during her lifetime.
Art
Brenda Goodman Paints the Pain of Being Human
Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.
Art
Six New York City Shows to See Right Now
Ai Weiwei’s artistic interventions, Black artists’ responses to ancient Egypt, and the impressive offerings of El Museo’s 2024 triennial are among our favorite art shows of the moment.
Art
How the Women's Studio Workshop Shakes Up the Art of Bookmaking
What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under its own imprint.
News
“Subway Therapy” Displays New Yorkers’ Post-Election Thoughts
Matthew Chavez launched his participatory art project in 2016, creating a space for the city’s private sentiments in the wake of Trump’s first win.
Art
How Bob Thompson Created an Art Community
Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative.
Art
The Quiet Sublime of Steve McQueen
The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.
Art
How to Survive a Fall
Through visceral, corporeal gestures, Le’Andra LeSeur reconfigures trauma into a psychic site from which one can still bloom into something tender and fierce.