Arts

Baker’s art exudes the deep and spiritual connection to nature that she has gained from her Mandan/Hidatsa family.

The Met’s staff art exhibition made headlines when it opened to the public last year. As it turns out, these shows are anything but rare.

“Our culture is far richer with the inclusion of other life forms,” says Catherine Chalmers, an artist who collaborates with a collective of wild ants to create tiny, Abstract Expressionist “Antworks.”

A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.

Those who ventured through torrential rain were treated to intimate conversations in cozy lofts and sometimes extraordinary work.

“The Laboratory” by John Collier is an example of a “problem picture,” paintings focused on characters caught in moral dilemmas that incited gossip amongst viewers.

Humane Ecology at the Clark Art Institute asks viewers to consider different interpretations of nature, including those of people who have been marginalized, silenced, and erased.

The 160-year-old Lower East Side landmark tells the story of the immigrant families who lived under its tin ceilings and wood-frame walls.

This week, artist studios in London, Maine, Harlem, and Toronto.

Restaurants are restorative, perhaps, for those eating, but they can also be grueling places of labor that tax workers’ bodies.

Yes, it sometimes felt like a circus — but circuses are fun, and art fairs, typically, are not.

This week, how to break up with your art-snob boyfriend, a pioneering woman graffiti artist, the rot in Rotten Tomatoes, and what would Ursula K. Le Guin have to say about AI-generated art?

“Burning Man is all about getting out of your comfort zone” is what many techies must’ve told themselves.

Though lacking much of its former spark, the show continues to provide a niche for artists outside of the market-driven fair sphere.

While Wu Junyong is deeply connected to his love of Chinese myths, folktales, and language, his subjects underscore his break with the past.

Mary Ann Unger worked against the idea of the solitary (male) genius, creating a model of life and work that empowers artists like her daughter, Eve Biddle.

Slathered in bubblegum pink paint, the exhibition space is adorned with paintings and personal belongings of queer Prairie icons including Adah Robinson, Bruce Goff, and Lynn Riggs.

Some things never change, like the over-botoxed art collector and the $25 cold sandwich.

There are no “outsiders” in this exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

The self-taught artist, who carved gravestones for a living, is finally receiving institutional recognition.