Arts

The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.

Marrying synthetic Cubism with 16th-century Italian Mannerism and the sensuality of Jean-Dominique Ingres, the artist’s work and life seem made for the silver screen.

Across installations, paintings, and drawings, the artist searches for community and ancestries.

 “I feel safe here.”

This week: Civil Rights photography, Chicago’s 1970s abortion network, the Nancy Drew convention, election memes so we can laugh to keep from crying, cinema-dog-raphy, and more.

Architect Paul Rudolph’s unbuilt projects live on as unborn dreams, specters of progress that, even when confined to vellum, widen our vision.

Emin accomplishes what any great artist must do — turn the sacrificing of privacy into the spark of human connectivity.

Gently swaying hives of orange, blue, and gold cloth guided me toward a circle of glacial monuments to transformation, fashioned from used and loved saris.

Artist Fred Tomaselli designed his bird-inspired 680-square-foot mosaic for Manhattan’s 14th Street station. 

In these darkest of times, Norma Quintana’s photographic tributes to everyday people dismantle the dehumanizing logic of Trump’s discourse.

Students of all ages love the versatility of clay and how tactile it is. The possibilities are endless when it comes to what students can create with clay! From mugs to figurines to maracas, clay brings magic to any art lesson. However, clay is not always as much fun for the art teacher. Clay brings lots […]

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The Los Angeles artist examines the contemporary phenomenon of art as asset class by focusing on the financial dealings of a billionaire investor and MoMA trustee.

She was one of the first filmmakers to make the leap from cinema to museum spaces, which allowed her greater freedom and the pleasure of demanding more viewer participation.

The art of Cai Guo-Qiang and Gustav Metzger illuminates a problem in art-making today: What happens when creative pursuits, in fact, destroy?

From a reprinting of ACT UP’s historic 1988 Election Day poster to contemporary images, artists are urging everyone to cast their ballots on November 5.

Jesse Krimes’s rebuke of the US justice system and Anastasia Samoylova’s uncanny images of Florida stir a visceral response in an election defined by cognitive dissonance.

A retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum conveys that Catlett’s artistic practice was inseparable from her dedication to Black and Mexican revolutionary politics.

The third edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) suggests that we can make a home through scarcity and find merriment and beauty amid instability.

Has anyone ever asked you, “You teach art… What’s your specialty?” Maybe you thought to yourself, “Uhhh, art?!” In reality, the art teacher can sometimes feel like a jack-of-all-trades. You do a little of this; you do a little of that. You know how to do minor services on your kiln and revive liquid tempera. You […]

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“That Paradise Place” explores the romantic lives and sexual fantasies of artists with disabilities through song and puppetry.