Required Reading

This week, Audubon bird prints, the meaning of “Indigenous,” Met Gala responses, Zadie Smith roasted, backlash to iPad ad, and more.

A View From the Easel

“Working in a space that is somewhat detached from the confines of time allows me to create and solely place my focus on my art.”

In Venice, Art Bears Witness to Chaos

What role can art play in helping us understand a time of great chaos and what role can national pavilions play in a time when nation states are ever present?

Required Reading

This week, new US census categories, a dispatch from an art-framing shop, university crackdowns on student protesters, silly TikTok recipes, and much more.

The Animal Wonderland of Les Lalanne

Blending zoomorphic elements with a fanciful aesthetic, the artist duo’s functional animal sculptures evoked a sense of wonder and enchantment.

The Fibers That Make Up Our Lives

Textile techniques serve as medium and metaphor in Unravel at the Barbican Centre, conveying possibilities for art and resistance.

The Bone Magic of Joy Curtis

Curtis’s work is sensitive to matriarchal lineage: the gory miracle of birth, the fecundity of death, generational divide and transmission.