What Makes a Good Arts District?

Along Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row, development has pushed out several art spaces during the last decade, resulting in a “manufactured” arts district.

Required Reading

This week, new chatbots will write your essays, psychedelics and climate activism, architectural media’s obsession with “house porn,” and much more.

Unmasking the Power of Lucha Libre

Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas shows that the performative wrestling genre is about more than the wrestlers or their costumes.

What Can Art Do for Women?

A group show of women artists at The Contemporary Austin addresses the weight and urgency of the current political moment.

What Just Above Midtown Meant for Black Artists 

The long-gone art gallery afforded Black artists a space to create without having to consider the pressures of the commercial art market or the fickle nature of nonprofit art institutions.

Ukrainians Demand Their Place in Art History

No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as “Russian”?

Girls, Gods, and Rabbits 

Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds.