Art
How to Envision the Revolution
The Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1 exhibition suggests that agency has everything to do with seeing rather merely being seen.
Reviews
Art
Queering the Art Historical Record to Make Space for an Invented Artist
Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938): The Lost Murals is a wonderfully mischievous lark that teases queerness out of an art historical epoch whose scholars seldom acknowledge the homosexuality of its most famous stars.
Art
Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art makes a compelling case for why we should be looking at the art of the everyday and why it is remarkable.
Art
Pioneers of German Expressionism Who Teetered on the Edge of Abstraction
With Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914, the Neue Galerie implicitly argues that the two artists belong among the pantheon of Europe's modern masters.
Performance
In a Santa Monica Parking Lot, Performance Artists Air Their Grievances
The 18th Street Art Center celebrated its 30th anniversary with We the Artists, a multimedia festival in which residents expressed rage and frustration toward the political climate.
Art
An Artist's Impressions of New York City's Most Exclusive Funeral Home
Painter Cynthia Talmadge successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.
Film
Three New Documentaries Chronicle the Careers of Game-Changing New York Artists
At Doc NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, directors examine the lives and works of artists Barbara Rubin, Jay Maisel, and Christo.
Books
A Cartoonist Takes Aim at the Art World
Cartoonist Matthew Thurber doesn’t leave us with a clean moral or tidy ending to his series of comic jabs at the art world and its institutions.
Art
A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge
At museum-hotel chain 21c's new Kansas City location, an art exhibit reflects on immigration and refuge.
Art
How Mexican and Chicanx Activism Flourished in 20th-Century Los Angeles
Political art-making and organizing have continued unabated for over a century in Los Angeles, starting with an influential newspaper by two anarchist Mexican brothers.
Art
Grand Narratives of Freedom and Identity Dominate the Latvian Capital's First Biennial
While some works in the Riga Biennial address a specific historical event, only a handful explore individual or personal stories.
Art
How Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods Lay the Foundation for His Art
Whether or not one considers Picasso a prodigy, Musée d'Orsay's Picasso. Blue and Rose allows the public to bask in the world of a young, energetic, and sensitive artist.