Arts

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.

Amplifying the voices of Native women, the artist issues a collective call to resistance through visual art, music, and community.

Instead of assigning my routine Gladiator review, I asked students to query ChatGPT about the film’s historical inaccuracies.

The risograph’s handmade aesthetic has become associated with posters, broadsheets, zines, and pamphlets, and has been embraced by small publishers.

Her paintings, springing from traditional Indian miniature painting made large, radiate both rootedness and displacement.

In quiet yet scrupulous detail, Designing Experience asks how the US National Park Service shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims.

Works by artists such as Diana Al-Hadid share Kasmin Gallery’s rooftop sculpture garden with five hives that yield about 100 jars of honey a year.

This week, artist studios in Montana, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

The original “not like the other girls” of art fairs has an ambiance of genuine curiosity and sincere connection.

This week, unopened 18th-century love letters, an unsung female archaeologist, Indigenous artists on the meaning of home, cookie-cutter holiday rom-coms, and more.

Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.

The artist retells the myth of Gilgamesh through a meditation on mud, a primordial material and source of timeless storytelling.

In the 1990s, Cerámica Suro began to seek out artists, offering its facility as the site for experimental collaborations in clay.

Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.

The strange and ever-changing “Erosion Bird” meme taps into the uncanniness and inconsistency of artificial intelligence.