Books
The Legends, Luxuries, and Dreams of Imperial Mughal Ateliers
In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.
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Art
A Maypole Dance for Dogs in Queens
Night and day converge, fantasy and reality, humans and animals, rigor and play in this exhibition that feels like a transportive and unfettered elsewhere.
Art
The Medieval Dance Between Greed and God
Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality at the Morgan Library proffers example after example of the sad fate of those who hoard money.
Art
A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.
Books
New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works
Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective.
Performance
Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity
Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.
Art
Madrid’s Enterprising Heritage Seen Through Its Signs
With their exhibition of signs, Madrid collective Paco Graco has created a catalyst for conversations about the city's past, present, and future.
Art
Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity
Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs.
Art
Catherine Opie’s Intimate Los Angeles
The works in Opie’s harmony is fraught are documents that bear witness, but they also highlight the connection between our public and private lives.
Art
The Violent Sublime of Wanda Koop’s Paintings
Koop both illuminates and conceals expressions of power, aestheticizing and making visible Russia’s violent war on Ukraine.
Art
Ethiopia’s Art at the Crossroads of Traditions
A new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore unfurls continuities between past and present across East Africa’s rich artistic traditions.
Books
Three Modernist Women Who Reclaimed the Nude
Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking