Arts

This week, aliens might be closer than we thought, the Orange County Museum of Art is not ok, Harvard is a mess, how casteism is hurting representation in the sciences, and much more.

The artist’s photographs shine a light on the unseen, resisting colonial categorization and institutional biases around art made by Native artists.

These free and low-cost workshops, screenings, performances, and more celebrate the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A show of early works by Shirley Jaffe challenges viewers to think about the road Jaffe pursued in her art, and what it means to go your own way.

Nothing was shaped or glazed by Fontana without his consideration of how light could interact, animate, or even mystify form.

Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.

A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano performers.

The Italian artist speaks with Hyperallergic about his home city of Turin, the loneliness of his characters, and more.   

Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.

While never quite at the forefront of The Permian Recordings, a sense of doom and crisis permeates the space, even if only by geological reference.

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered highlights the need for more research on twentieth-century self-taught American artists, who were marginalized by restrictive art historical narratives.

The Dallas Museum of Art’s retrospective of the artist is an opportunity to reframe the conversation about Wong and his work.

The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.

From a Williamsburg basement to a Bed-Stuy living room and a project space in Gowanus, there’s no shortage of art to discover in the borough.

An exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin offers an alternative view of the nation through the lens of contemporary artists.

Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?

Entering World of Barbie felt like stepping through Oz, but the Oz that is Barbie: a James Turrell Ganzfeld-like diffusion of hyper-femme magenta pink.

His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.

Can anyone truly heal from a traumatic experience?

Coursing through Velvet Terrorism is graphic evidence of how these spirited women have been constantly attacked by the patriarchy.