Art
Tavares Strachan Complicates What It Means to Be a “Pioneer”
The artist tells the stories of unsung people of color who played key roles in crucial events of Euro-American culture, including exploitative and colonialist endeavors.
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What Adults Can Learn From Children’s Games
In his latest exhibition, artist Francis Alÿs points to the powerful potential of play to bring people together.
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The Kaleidoscopic World of Amish Women’s Quilts
The quilts in Pattern and Paradox exist at the intersections of tradition and innovation, the humble and the spectacular.
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Richard Whitten’s Perspectival Sleight of Hand
Cheerfully disquieting and unapologetically erudite, his paintings ask viewers to embrace the illusion.
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Lulú Varona’s Visions of Puerto Rican Solidarity
The artist’s embroidered works suggest the need for collectivity to overcome common struggles such as environmental destruction.
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Vera Molnár’s Fascination With the Glitches in the Matrix
In her computer-based works, the artist sought freedom within systematism and improvisation within predictability.
Books
How Michelangelo’s Dome Survived Through the Centuries
A new book resurrects the oft-overlooked story of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, whose dome was saved from collapse by a team of mathematicians and the Pope.
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Will There Be Fish This Year?
Texture, pattern, repetition, and practice combine with chance and the reality of climate change in the work of Dominick Porras.
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The Mutual Fascinations of the Low Countries and Muslim-Majority Lands
Imagine Me and You encourages quiet contemplation of the juxtapositions and adaptations between the regions from 1450 to 1750.
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In Beatrice Glow's Art, Colonial Histories and AI Collide
The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light.
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An Intergenerational Conversation Between Black Women Artists
DON’T YOU MISS US? honors the trailblazing women who paved the way, underscoring the ongoing dialogue between past and present artistic expressions.
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The Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.