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Fine Art
Fine Art news and analysis from The Nation
November 26, 2019
Is the prestigious international showcase of contemporary art necessarily nationalistic?
November 22, 2019
Combining video, performance, and music, his work tackles themes of sex, labor, public space, and the body.
November 1, 2019
Favianna Rodriguez on making art in “this white supremacist, fucked-up world.”
October 30, 2019
With dealers and curators jumping on the figurative bandwagon, we have to look more closely at whether a new cohort of painters succeeds at what they’re attempting.
October 18, 2019
When it comes to showing the art of incarcerated people, fine-art institutions are buying into the prison-industrial complex.
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September 19, 2019
A recent show in Berlin grapples with the legacy of a prominent German modernist who was a supporter of Nazism but whose art was derided by Nazis.
September 17, 2019
A new project called Flowers on the Inside allows people to send postcards featuring art from undocumented immigrants to detained migrants.
September 10, 2019
The Arnautoff murals in San Francisco have been denounced as demeaning and triggering, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.
August 29, 2019
A graceful collection of the painter’s works about racial violence goes on exhibit in Birmingham, Alabama, as residents confront a difficult history.
August 26, 2019
An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.
