Arts

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the classic Japanese theater genre.

This season in the nation’s capital offers poignant portraiture by Félix González-Torres, an archive of James Baldwin, Rosemary Feit Covey’s organic forms, documentary photography, and more.

The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq multidisciplinary artist and choreographer communicates Indigenous movement systems and forms of knowledge through dance.

“Drawing” with her own hair, the artist addresses cultural stereotypes and sociopolitical issues including feminism, personal agency, and aging.

The 87-year-old artist is having one of those rare the-art-world-is-paying-attention moments, and it feels joyful and deserved.

The city’s arts scene is in full swing again, with Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, queer science fiction, light in Medieval Europe, Christina Ramberg’s fragmented figuration, and more.

The Lebanese-American artist speaks to the fragmented cultural spaces of regions host to ancient civilizations, which merge with her own displacement. 

The Diné artist demonstrates that traditional techniques and motifs are not static, but are dynamic bearers of emotional weight.

A posthumous encounter with Hans Franks’s cosmic art, Sydney Cash’s reinvorigrations of ‘30s-era glass, Frances Segismundo’s Zen-inspired work, and more.

Artists including Carrie Mae Weems and Shepard Fairey are joining large-scale campaigns to encourage voter turnout this election season.

Displayed at marches and strikes, these creative emblems of collective struggle convey specific values centered around fair wages, protest, and rights across industries.

An exhibition brings together all of the artist’s surviving work, demonstrating the many ways he incorporated aspects of his illness into his practice.

Though the term “strike” was coined in 1768, the history of work stoppages is much older and artists have been involved from the start.

An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.

Local artists get political in painstakingly crafted mosaics at the only state fair crop art display in the United States.

This week: diving into the Black Atlantic, Percival Everett’s James, “demure” by and for trans people, debunking the “marshmallow test,” and much more.

Though she belongs to a movement of young artists exploring recent upheavals in Sri Lanka, Hema Shironi’s works also draw upon her experience as a mixed-identity artist.

“I consider the studio to be a co-creator of my work, and the container for my actions.”

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is preparing to proudly display works that didn’t make it into a popular open-call show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Historias aims to provide a more comprehensive and intersectional view of a steadily growing and diversifying population.