Art
Teresita Fernández Depicts Caribbean Colonialism and Eco-Trauma
Fernández employs motifs of darkness and obscurity to hint at the something beyond what we see.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, Langston Hughes's Xmas postcards, why we need a Latinx museum, disability in art conservation, the world's most stolen painting, and more.
Books
This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020
John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
Art
The Year Without Art, 2020
Every individual loss carries the resonance of collective loss, the ripple of disappearance.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Lisa Corinne Davis
“Artists are cultural critics — but painting is a language.”
Books
Does Anyone Believe in Sculpture?
In "Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now," the issue crying out to be addressed is: where will sculpture go next?
Music
Flo Milli, Rap Queen
She knows you love to be entertained.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the best 2020 architecture in India, the lie of trickle-down economics, Armenian artists respond, an artist poses as a billionaire to photograph penthouses, and much more.
Art
Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
“Placing the symbolic weight of this mayhem into the palm of my hand brings me comfort and hope.”
Art
Steve DiBenedetto’s Raw Nerves
Whatever the impulse that initiated the paintings, DiBenedetto clearly works everything out on the surface.
Music
Two Sad Christmas Songs
What if the season is not jolly?
Art
Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao's paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.