News
Protesters marched outside the governor's office near Grand Central Station, carrying a mock overdose prevention center to urge approval of the five pilot prevention centers promised during Cuomo's election campaign.
Art
The intersection between design and political power, as far as these candidates go, is difficult to discern.
Interview
I always remember Kate McGraw’s artworks as a colorful sprawl of integrated textures — equal parts playful, abstract, and socially aware.
In Brief
There are so many ways for presidential candidates to spar: in debates, in conversation with the press — and now, on social media!
News
Australian senator Jacqui Lambi recently produced her own portrait that riffs off the famous Obama poster, but with the words "TRUST" instead of "HOPE."
Art
The discussion used MoMA’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition as a jumping-off point for considering a plethora of intersections between art, politics, and social justice.
Art
What kind of painting do you make in the face of the killing of an unarmed civilian by a police officer? What type of drawing sums up the pain of more than a century of institutional racism?
Art
Let’s begin with the obvious: to attempt a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art from across Brooklyn would be not only impossible but foolish, a kind of Tower of Babel of artistic practice. And so the Brooklyn Museum’s eagerly awaited Crossing Brooklyn is not a sweeping survey but a tight, t
Opinion
MIAMI BEACH — Unsurprisingly, the best expression of the cognitive dissonance I'm once again feeling — living simultaneously in the real world and the art world, which feel so frustratingly far apart — comes in the form of a tweet.
News
Rather than the usual parties and celebratory parades, many Mexicans marked Revolution Day last Thursday by protesting the massacre of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in a vividly symbolic way: burning effigies of their leaders.
Art
Now that the Whitney Biennial is over and the critical debate around it has subsided, I feel it's time to put this project to rest: I created Joe Scanlan.
News
The Biennale of Sydney will end its relationship with major sponsor Transfield Holdings, and Biennale Chairman Luca Belgiorno-Nettis has resigned, the Guardian reports. The moves come in response to a growing boycott of the exhibition over its link with Transfield.