Portraits in Minneapolis Portraits in Minneapolis
A street-art celebration of diversity.
Art at the Border of Power and Ecology Art at the Border of Power and Ecology
Miguel Fernández de Castro’s multimedia works reveal the ties between money, migration, and environmental disaster.
Oct 19, 2021 / 2021 Year in Review / Max Pearl
Fulton Leroy Washington Was a Prison Painter. Now He’s an Art-World Star. Fulton Leroy Washington Was a Prison Painter. Now He’s an Art-World Star.
The 66-year-old wants to use Black art to transform Compton.
Sep 7, 2021 / Q&A / Karlos K. Hill
Art and Exile in the Third Republic Art and Exile in the Third Republic
James McAuley’s The House of Fragile Things examines the travails of a circle of Jewish art collectors, tracing a history of betrayal and dispossession.
Aug 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Stamler
The Liberation of Alice Neel The Liberation of Alice Neel
Her paintings were a site of expression for populist politics and in her art she found something close to freedom from the doldrums of her personal life.
Aug 10, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism
Her paintings strove to convey the ways sublime experience could be found in nature and the body.
Aug 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl
Behind the Hedonist Persona of Francis Bacon Behind the Hedonist Persona of Francis Bacon
Annalyn Swan and Mark Stevens’s comprehensive study of the British artist is a sensitive investigation into his artistic identity.
Jun 9, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Tausif Noor
A Year Lived Inside With Instagram and a Dutch Master A Year Lived Inside With Instagram and a Dutch Master
What Pieter de Hooch, social media, and the lockdown taught me.
Jun 3, 2021 / Feature / Benjamin Moser
Is It Time to Abolish Museums? Is It Time to Abolish Museums?
From problematic funders to union-busting, museums around the world have been beset by controversy. Can reform actually change these institutions?
May 25, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Dana Kopel
Encounters With the Unknown Encounters With the Unknown
Returning to New York’s galleries in search of surprise.
May 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky