Books
Making Comics Rescued These Creators During COVID-19
Rescue Party, a selection of comics from around the world, feels like both a celebration and a memorial: We made it.
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Books
The Unnatural Link Between Mothering and Technological Surveillance
Supervision provided me, as a curator/new mom, an entry point into how the labor that is mothering intersects with technology and surveillance.
Art
A Joyful Meeting of Matisse and Renoir
New Encounters takes Matisse and Renoir out of their usual spots at the Barnes Foundation to shed light on the relationship between the two artists.
Art
Gavin Jantjes’s Soft Songs From Exile
Since being forced to leave South Africa for critiquing Apartheid, the artist has worked from afar to shed light on Black struggles for equality.
Art
The Queer Artists Who Helped Shape the Southwest
Out West has no strict or static boundaries, no assumptions about or prescriptions for what 20th-century “queer art” in the region may have been.
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
Richard Whitten’s Perspectival Sleight of Hand
Cheerfully disquieting and unapologetically erudite, his paintings ask viewers to embrace the illusion.
Art
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.
Art
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.