Arts

The special attention to women artists highlights the importance of intersectional representation in the fight for inclusion.

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

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.

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

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

Gateway to the South is cemented firmly in the South and within the artist’s own ancestry.

Even the world’s most proliferated images appear novel when they’re blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD.

This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere.

This week, a new film on Amílcar Cabral, protecting Odesa’s historical buildings, rumors of the first US bullet train, pranking Google Maps, and much more.

The fact that more than a fifth of Utica’s residents were born outside the US inspires the group show Between Worlds at the Munson Museum. 

Kids and parents were “captivated” by the artist’s visit. Now, his mural for the public school’s library will go on display for the first time.

The problem with a show in Venice on war is the insistence that there had to be a bit of hope too — and the hopeful element of this show is feeble, if not schmalzy.

After decades of work, expectations for women artists to prioritize family — or male peers — remains the prevailing norm rather than the exception. 

“Entering the studio, my ritual is to transform the space by turning on all the lights.”

At the core, all of Watt’s work shows a devotion to care and closeness, a desire to make tangible the layers of relations that bind and make us. 

Chloe Scout Nix and Lena Smart challenge the distorted body images that prevail in mainstream media.

The peoples crushed under British imperialism might not find Hywel Pratley’s tribute to the late monarch and her dogs so endearing.

Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon.

The late artist’s unusual classes and apprentice program continue to inspire a mix of play and discipline in her former students’ practices.