Art
A 19th-Century Guide to Euclid's Geometry Reborn as an Interactive Site
Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.
Review
Art
How Women Have Been Constricted by Design
As Annica Cuppetelli's research has revealed, contemporary women are still routinely subjected to garment-based forms of discrimination.
Art
Descending into Lee Bontecou’s Apocalyptic Voids
Like her massive wall reliefs, Bontecou's works on paper evoke the world as fragile, teetering on the brink of total calamity.
Art
Women Artists Shatter the Stereotype of the “Valley Girl”
Valley Girl Redefined aims to challenge that very limited depiction of women from “the Valley.”
Books
Paul J. Sachs Trained a Generation of American Museum Leaders, Including Alfred Barr
Between 1921 and 1948, Sachs taught a year-long graduate class at the Fogg Art Museum “that decisively shaped the development, character, and ethos of the American art museum.”
Art
An Indigenous Artist Captures the Racial Violence at Standing Rock
Jim Denomie's paintings present an emotional response to the violence of white supremacy that emerged during the DAPL conflict.
Performance
Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia
Smith's Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.
Performance
A Close Reading of Slave Play Interrogates the Burden of Interracial Trauma
Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?
Art
How K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies
Not unlike the art market, K-pop is governed by corporate interests and a hunger for global audiences.
Art
The Politics Behind the Massacred Canvases of Lucio Fontana
Will audiences ignore the Argentine-Italian's fascist past to celebrate his first US museum survey in more than 40 years?
Art
A Promising Biennial in Kochi, India Is Marred by Sexual Misconduct Mishandling
The fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennial, which is the first instance of it being curated by a woman, is marked by lofty ideals, but also incidents of toxic masculinity.
Performance
A Play Casts Hercules as a Toxic Male (but Still a Hero)
A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.