Arts

Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more.

Diana Weymar’s embroidered textiles amplify the voices of courageous women in post-Roe v. Wade America.

Hyperrealism and small-scale painting dominate at the Art Dealers Association of America’s annual fair.

The volume of problematic artifacts Locke uncovered in the British Museum’s archives illustrates the fundamental importance of objective historical research.

Throughout her career, she collaborated with scientists, doctors, and animals, blurring the boundaries between art projects and scientific experiments.

At the Wende Museum, contemporary art is cleverly interspersed among archival surveillance artifacts.

This week, self-clicking computers, Saif Azzuz’s hymn to Indigenous plants, RIP Bed-Stuy Aquarium fishies, ugly Renaissance babies, Diwali-ween, and more. 

“Music is a crucial part of my routine, guiding me into an unconscious, fluid state where ideas emerge freely.”

From Chappell Roan references to hyper-specific camp and pop-culture moments, the phenomenon is a reprieve from the world of bunny ears and angel halos.

Memento Moris remind us that death is inevitable, nothing afterward is assured, and what we do in that crack of light between oblivions is our responsibility.

Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.

In Women at War: 12 Ukrainian Artists, art is a counterattack, a means by which a victimized populace fights back.

Graphic design is all around us—from our bag of coffee grounds to our school’s logo. Understanding the origin of graphic design enriches fundamental design skills like layout, composition, typography, and visual hierarchy. Plus, it helps to remind students that graphic design wasn’t always on computers! Differentiate between graphic design and digital art to explore hands-on, […]

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To the artist, the female body can be both vulnerable and protective, objectified orifice and multiplicitous entity.

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north.

The late British artist certainly had no sympathy for the idea — or perhaps the misplaced ideal — of the perfectly crafted sculptural object.

Materials of Solidarity at New York University provides an on-campus refuge in which to reflect on the injustices of the past year and plan for the future.

Matthew Lusk’s suspended sculptural odyssey, the fetish-meets-fun of a doll exhibition, the macabre oddities of ORT Projects, and so much more.

Launched on October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation broke not just with the Catholic Church but with all that’s dark and demonic, wanton and witchy.

Sammy Baloji demonstrates how the architectural movement — and implicitly, Belgium as a country and culture — was underpinned by the colonization of the Congo.