Art
Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness
While it may be strange to think of food insecurity as a basis for art, the works in Food Justice reveal barriers and injustices in food access.
Reviews
Art
A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.
Art
An Artist Finds Inspiration in an Inherited Archive of African American Culture
A love of Black art and history was the bedrock of the friendship between Dell Marie Hamilton and Susan Denker, who had markedly different racial, economic, and generational subject positions.
Art
Tony Fitzpatrick's Last Museum Show
With what he says is his final museum bow, Fitzpatrick shines a light on the colorful diversity that composes his city.
Books
A Portrait of the Last Six Years of US Politics
Brink is not a fun book, and it shouldn’t be.
Art
Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
Art
Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.
Art
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
Art
The Magnificent Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Thomas was a major artist who in her lifetime was unjustly denied the acclaim she merited. This show is a brave beginning.
Art
The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
Film
Pedro Almodóvar Presents a Beguiling Thriller About Motherhood
Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority.
Art
The Punk Marie Antoinette of the 1970s New York Art Scene
In Colette Lumière’s world, the theatricality of Versailles meets the punk ethos of the Sex Pistols.