Arts

A public art programming series investigates the relationship between carceral expansion and the neighborhood’s struggle for self-determination.

Artist Paul Gagner’s sculptural avian dwellings offer an absurdist take on the core structures of small-town Americana.

This week, the movement to “decolonize” chocolate, Lorraine Hansberry’s little-known lesbian fiction, corporate accents, and much more.

Dennis’s exaggerated scenarios compel non-Indigenous viewers to confront racial dynamics that many people in the images choose not to see.

At the center of the acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker’s practice is her effort to counter White, colonialist versions of history.

Miami’s Greater Bureau of Time Tourism is an experimental history department meant to combat Florida’s erasure of Black and Brown stories.

Artist Auguste Toulmouche seems to have struck on a timeless theme: women being annoyed about the shit we have to put up with.

As beautifully controlled as his paintings are, they also present a ghastly vision of the world.

A century after his death, the Meadows Museum offers a rare opportunity to experience 26 of the artist’s luminous paintings of Spanish landscapes.

You’s paintings exude a sense of sweet, childlike wonder, where each moment is filled with possibility.

All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.

From Louise Bourgeois in 2000 to El Anatsui in 2023, countless artists have wrestled with the London exhibition space’s (im)possibilities.

I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.

This week, the oldest plant-based red paint, the stories of queer Palestinians in Gaza, why women’s clothes don’t have pockets, and more.

Abraham Ángel embodied a new type of homegrown Mexican artist who rejected past European traditions in favor of local influences like arte popular. 

Is the Royal Academy’s Marina Abramović retrospective spirituality or its monetization? You toss the coin.

Each symbol in Tanavoli’s Poets, Locks, Cages at the Vancouver Art Gallery holds a special meaning in Sufism, which has inspired his work.

Smith’s collections of folk music, Indigenous art, and occult ephemera inspired generations of artists.

La Casa de la Literatura García Márquez is a strange and wonderful new gallery for Mexico City’s ever-changing contemporary arts scene.

Groundswell is a crucial reexamination of important but under-recognized artists working with the land.