Arts

The Detroit-based nonbinary artist breathes new life into customs and traditions, giving them a space to grow with the diaspora.

“It feels like an (un)learning,” the LA-based artist says of its practice. “It’s an unresolved process, and it’s part of how I understand the world around me.”

As Yet and Still to Come points to the precariousness of time and the selectiveness of archives.

The Fordham exhibition spotlights centuries of hierarchical structures designed to dehumanize Black and Jewish people and question their right to be equal citizens.

In Berlin, where many artists settled after the protests that shook Turkey a decade ago, an exhibition grapples with the political repression and exile that followed.

Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.

Edra Soto’s art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.

Beyond Mastery illustrates how the Institute of American Indian Arts is liberating and expanding truly beyond those expectations of Indigenous art.

In an interview with Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn-based nonbinary artist shares new sculptures inspired by the tension between the material and the spectral.

In the art of Turiya Adkins, Black people have long defied gravity, our existence has long depended on our uncanny capacity for flight.

Dread Scott channels Nina Simone through works that sing of pain and endurance.

In the plurality of meaning and language, the Brooklyn-based trans nonbinary artist finds a resonant analogy for their experience of the world.

The relationship between Berea College and Lincoln Institute is marked by racism, “benevolent” White donors, and Black educators who equipped Black youth with skills in industrial trades.

James Forten was a decolonizer, feminist, father, husband, and craftsman extraordinaire, an organizer, a leader of the elite free community of African Americans.

In backyards, buffets, and barbecues across California, Indo artists and organizers are attempting to record, preserve, and further California Indo culture.

Teaching traditional Cherokee craft has always been, and will always be, a political act, central to the work of holding onto one another.

What untold stories do these crafts hold that can expand and question narratives regarding knowledge, identity, and aesthetics?

For the Brooklyn-based trans artist, traditional modes of displaying art are akin to the gender binary — and he simply won’t be contained.

This week, an author self-censures her novel set in historical Russia, misogynistic New York Times headlines, a judge rules in a banana art case, and guess who was most impacted by wildfire air pollution in New York?

Your essential guide to exhibitions and outdoor installations across the city, Upstate New York, and Long Island.