Arts

Part 2 of Pratt’s MFA thesis exhibition is all about depicting the toxic capitalist, racist, misogynistic, transphobic status quo in the US.

The poetic history of melons, odes to Arabic calligraphy, and a dystopian badminton court were among the highlights across 55 galleries.

The artist draws inspiration from her own migration to consider both the confinement and freedom associated with a life in motion.

Hostility comes across in various forms throughout “Hostile Terrain ’94,” a show about the perils involved in undocumented migration.

Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times.

Friends of the Orphan Signs sees abandoned roadside signs as a creative and educational opportunity, turning them into revitalized works of art.

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.

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

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

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.