Books
In addition to being a watercolorist, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel was also the author of Color Problems, widely overlooked, yet staggering turn-of-the-century book on color theory.
Art
Tal R reminds us that what’s painted is inherently fiction, that the world of a painting is a reality unto itself.
Art
Stanley Lewis finds a way to step aside and let the world become paint.
Art
This is the kind of group exhibition that rarely happens in New York — a gathering of artists from different countries, cultures, generations, and aesthetic approaches focused on the construction of identity.
Art
When Belgium was occupied by Germany during World War II, René Magritte adopted the style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and painted images based on popular cartoons.
Art
PÒTOPRENS is an exhibition about Haitian artists that rebels against stereotypes of Haitian art.
Art
It seems almost predetermined that the art of Sicily is rooted in the transience of life.
Art
A brief London exhibition, Sudan / South Sudan Literature Week, impugns Western depictions of "war, violence, and unending political unrest" in the East African nations.
Art
Filled with fried egg breasts and cucumber phalluses, Sarah Lucas's new retrospective at the New Museum illuminates her wry subversion of the patriarchal art historical canon.
Books
In the 1980s, photographer David T. Hanson captured aerial views of Superfund sites, revealing the environmental toll of American industry.
Art
An exhibition full of drawings shines light on the history of the line in this artist’s work.
Film
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest film reconstructs the 1985 theft of nearly 150 pre-Hispanic artifacts from a Mexico City museum.