Arts

This week, Israel destroys Gaza’s main library; a queer, climate-conscious song from Yo-Yo Ma; a giant pottery wheel, Spotify Wrapped, and more.

It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.

In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.

Curator Rebecca Fasman shares her top picks in the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, from a phallic Egyptian amulet to novelty condoms.

Is it not social practice to provide an experience in which a different kind of attention and, above all, a different kind of thinking is demanded?

For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.

The New York Botanical Garden’s annual Holiday Train Show features nearly 200 miniature landmarks, all made of natural materials.

I can think of few other artists who, through the process of painting, are willing to place their work in jeopardy by denying the viewer a definition or resolution.

Moncho 1929’s latest exhibition questions what we mean when we say “history” or “beliefs” or even that something is “ours.”

Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.

In her visceral works, Uckotter examines a version of trans womanhood unseen in most mainstream narratives.

Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.

Housed in a working elevator, Freight Gallery opens roughly once a month for just two hours.

A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”

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.