Arts

We imagined the curatorial texts for a selection of pandemic-era memes if they were exhibited in some other dimension 50 years from now.

The Clown Egg Register is a beloved yet bizarre archiving practice still used by clowning communities today.

In Kitaj’s work, the whole is an extravagant layering of several images into one.

Inspired by the Dutch tradition of Delft blue pottery that imitated Chinese porcelain, Patrick Bergsma incorporates handcrafted bonsai trees into his exploding works.

An exhibition at LA’s Skirball Cultural Center chronicles three women’s decades-long struggle to reclaim a family painting seized by the Nazis.

California Stars illuminates contributions to contemporary art that have been long ignored and excluded from the standard Euro-American canon.

A nod to Diego Rivera, Maya Lin’s new generative art, and Flemish engravings shine at the International Fine Print Dealers Association show.

He contributed to his own obscurity by portraying his sitters and characters with humor and smiles, rather than aloof nobility.

A new book and show at Cooper Hewitt introduces the artist’s vivid, textural world to a new generation.

Women artists’ contributions shine in The Culture, an exhibition about hip hop at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

This week, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring legacy, the “doyenne of Black horror,” the ultimate Jeff Koons Halloween costume, and why do cats meow?

Varo’s paintings beckon us to plunge into their vaporous worlds while challenging us to decode intricate scenarios.

What the artworks in Amazonia offer is a means to communicate complex or abstract subjects with uncommon immediacy.

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, opening next month at the Brooklyn Museum, will feature nearly a thousand works by almost 100 artists.

These are not your goth grandmother’s Halloween nails.

Fungkiigrrl’s absurd, retrofuturist TikToks connect us to places and things we know we can never experience again.

To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.

SIGHTLINES increases the visibility of African art, bringing metal arts from the 19th and 20th centuries together with works by contemporary African artists.

Through his practice, Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth continuously grasps to connect threads of home as it remains a shape-shifting and ever-moving target.

Artists Susy Bielak and Fred Schmalz sifted through archives and interviewed community members to tell a more complete and complex story of the region.