Art
Art of the Russian Revolution, Through Contemporary Eyes
The Russian Revolution was an unparalleled disaster, but its artistic tradition remains of enormous interest.
Review
Art
A First-Timer Approaches the ADAA Fair Like a Buffet
Dead Birds and haunting collages are among the many gems at the 2019 Art Dealers Association of America Art fair.
Film
Taking the Highway to Freedom with a Green Book
The documentary is a travelogue that embarks on a journey through present-day America, using the Green Book as its guide.
Performance
A Ballet Redefines “Wokeness”
Dwight Rhoden’s galvanizing protest rally of a ballet takes on topical issues, while bridging popular music with arguably the most conservative form of dance.
Art
Using AI to Produce "Impossible" Tulips
Anna Ridler uses AI to bring "tulipmania" into the future.
Books
The Modernists Marginalized Under Colonialism
Mapping Modernisms points us to the unequal way in which Western Modernist art histories characterize influence between cultures.
Art
Andy, Andy Everywhere
While the Whitney Museum retrospective celebrates his long career, two smaller New York shows cull from Warhol Factory closets important ephemera that illuminate his body of work and his relationship to art making.
Books
A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera
People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”
Art
In Response to the British Museum, an Exhibition Demonstrates the High Cost of Iraqi Oil
An exhibition at P21 gallery highlights the human consequences of the exploitation of Iraq’s oil reserves, among them, environmental crises, state corruption, and youth unemployment.
Books
A Journalist’s Year of Sunday Interviews with Diego Rivera
Alfredo Cardona Peña's conversations with the loquacious 63-year-old artist are available for the first time in English.
Books
An Outsider’s Lens of 1960s New York
Japanese photographer Sumiharu Watanabe may not have known enough about the US to understand the changes taking place in New York City, but his lens captured them.
Art
An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of Her Sisters
Rema Ghuloum's life-affirming response to this loss has been to make paintings whose direct and unapologetic pursuit of beauty feels rare.