Art
The Artist Who Cast a Cold Gaze on Flowers
Van Huysum's are not paintings of flowers in all their transience, but flowers of the curious Now, in all their splendid, bullish brilliance.
Reviews
Art
The Unapologetic Femininity of Isabella Ducrot’s Textile Art
Her meticulously assembled, labyrinthine stitches, sketches, and scribbles are like narrative threads weaving their way through a rich life.
Film
In Hummingbirds, Joy Is an Act of Resistance
The coming-of-age documentary is as full of whimsy and joy as it is packed with clear-eyed resilience.
Art
3B Collective Honors the Grittier Side of Los Angeles
The group exemplifies what a decolonial art practice can be: honoring all contributors rather than crediting one artist with sole authorship of a work.
Art
The Various Talents of Mary Cassatt
During her lifetime and since her death in 1926, the painter, printer, and pastels virtuoso has often been reduced to single aspects of her life and work.
Books
Eileen Agar’s Surrealist Sea
“Surrealism for me draws its inspiration from nature,” writes Eileen Agar in her memoir A Look at My Life.
Art
Highlights From the Santa Fe Indian Market
Year after year, the market’s popularity keeps increasing, drawing more artists, celebrities, curators, and collectors than ever before.
Art
The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art
The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists, the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.
Art
Charting the Outer Reaches of Fandom in Art
As a writer and curator who researches fandom, I yearned for more tangible displays of fannish material culture than those in To go boldly.
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.
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.