Arts

Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video greets us with the dizziness befitting a period of rapid economic growth and social change.

Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.

Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who remains behind bars at the Guanajay maximum security prison, talks to Claudia Genlui Hidalgo about his latest — and unconventional — project.

Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside.

From an Anish Kapoor “Mini-Bean” to teeny immersive installations, Barely Fair is a much-needed break from the art world’s extravagance.

At the annual Schomburg Center event, I didn’t have to go searching for books made by and for me — because they were all around me.

With an eye for unearthing cultural hypocrisy and advocating for exploited people, Álvarez Muñoz responds to social injustice in her colorful art.

If God (and the Devil) are in the details, the craft of printmaking proves a powerful outlet for exploring Eisenman’s most enduring themes.

The tales in the Thamesmead Codex are melded, mashed up, meshed together fragments of the many human stories told to artist Bob and Roberta Smith.

One might go to an art fair anticipating spectacle, but what I found at Expo Chicago was much more heartening, and deeply Midwestern.

A show at Lehman College Art Gallery featuring four dozen LGBTQ+ artists from all walks of life prioritizes themes of romance and affection.

This week, uncovering clues about the Benin Bronzes, the British Museum takes everything but a joke, Hollywood writers vote on a strike, and popcorn bags can do what?

The city could use more political public murals like those of the artist known as Rigo 23.

“Quilt” is an insufficient description for the extraordinary fabric pieces Scott began to construct in the 1970s.

The artist’s playful paintings of medieval women saints fighting monsters and dragons have a Jewish angle.

At Princeton University, “Cycle of Creativity” sets the writer’s archive in dialogue with the artist’s paintings, prints, and sculptures.

“Give Them Their Flowers” pays homage to Miami’s Black queer history by merging historical research, archival imagery, artifacts, and oral histories.

“RuPublicans” responds to harmful anti-drag legislation in true queen fashion.

Detroit’s Huckleberry Explorer’s Club, founded by Stefany Anne Golberg, monumentalizes the bits of existence that linger beneath the quotidian.

With “Dark Illuminations” artist Kenturah Davis creates opportunities for us to see the sacred and meditative in the words we write.