Art Review
The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.
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Art
From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance
While other Bay Area spaces have silenced Palestinian artists or remained silent themselves, a show at SOMArts Cultural Center asks visitors to take a stand.
Art Review
A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.
Art Review
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Refuse to Forget
As the US government expunges identities through words and names, the artists’ online archive of videos proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act.
Art Review
An Artist Captures Life’s Relentless Too-Muchness
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you.
Art
Woven Being Interweaves the Complexities of Native Art and Life
Native and Non-Native curators come together for this ambitious non-hierarchical exhibition tackling land and waterways, extra-human connection, and nonlinear time.
Art Review
Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable
The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.
Art Review
Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.
Book Review
Mary Cassatt Was Forever an American in Paris
In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Iskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined.
Art
The Cinematic Dreaming of Ryuichi Sakamoto
The late musical colossus’s first comprehensive exhibition in the nation makes you feel like his spirit is in the room, sitting at the piano.
Art Review
Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche
Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century.
Book Review
The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter
The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.