The Complex Fashion History of Colonial Spanish America
An exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art encapsulates the complicated ways in which Indigenous and European traditions cross-pollinated through textiles and accessories.
Mindfully Curated
An exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art encapsulates the complicated ways in which Indigenous and European traditions cross-pollinated through textiles and accessories.
Pittsburgh’s John Kane: Life & Art of an American Workman presents Kane’s experience as a manual laborer as integral to — not separate from — his art.

Welcome to the 206th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. In this edition, artists pour paint across folded sheets of paper, regard their studio as an “office,” meticulously craft mosaics, and make small spaces feel limitless. Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio […]
Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes.
Beau Carey and Ian Fishers’ exhibition considers our relationship to the earth, from the top down.
For some of us, it’s not exactly news that rich and famous people are connected to other rich and famous people.
Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience.
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.
This week, a mysterious portrait of Joan Didion, considering Carolee Schneemann, privatizing libraries, Dalit discrimination, the “great internet grievance war,” and more.
An exhibition on view at Detroit’s Henry Ford Museum features 7,000 Christmas ornaments, from the traditionally festive to the deeply bizarre.
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.
Dean Byington’s Cassandra warning call in his art reveals the world we know as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse.
It seems Taaffe is looking at the present as an extinction event, and that one purpose of painting is to bequeath some record of history and time to the future.
Though Holt’s photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage.
Reflecting on the five-year process of unearthing and restaging Lucy Lippard’s 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists.
The rules that structure Jane’s paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
Airports across the US have been taking art more seriously in recent years. Have a look.
There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead’s paintings of animals engaged in human situations.