Arts

This week, crossword puzzles on Black culture, the history of International Women’s Day, gender-neutral award shows, and why do fake reviews online fly under our radar?

Welcoming spring and the season of harvest, Holi is inherently playful and joyous as it channels the love between Radha and Krishna.

Tali Keren’s work interrogates the insidious imbrications of religious, political, and military institutions across the United States and Israel.

If others are “career” artists, Faina Lerman is a “living” artist — her artistic means are inextricable from her life, rather than motivated by the desire to make a living.

Artists such as Leah Clements, Christine Sun Kim, and Jamila Prowse exercise care as responsibility, access, and inclusivity, and fostering a critical dialogue with others.

Representation alone will not end inequity in art museums.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Hew Locke, Saif Azzuz, Miyoko Ito, Shona McAndrew, and more.

The artist talks to Hyperallergic ahead of his New York exhibition Goddam. 

An exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, curated by over 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities, paves the way for equitable collaborative possibilities.

We need more support for the women who have to balance an art practice with caregiving for their ailing parents.

If the body as a point of inspiration was once an innocent or abstract notion for the fiber artist, her more recent work can no longer avoid the body as battleground.

In Plant Parenthood, Alina Bliumis portrays the plants that have been used to terminate pregnancies for hundreds and thousands of years.

Action, Gesture, Paint is a pointed challenge to the common definition of Abstract Expressionism: White, male, American artists.

Beya Othmani presents an exhibition on artist Fela Kefi Leroux’s participation in the 1966 festival in Dakar and offers insight into her curatorial process.

Using the hashtag “No to AI Art,” artists protest AI image generators’ use of their work without permission or compensation.

Using grand scale, lush color, and time-intensive labor, Hayley Barker creates artwork that magnifies the sublime in that which is often overlooked.

Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music.

Reza Safavi’s digital reinterpretation of Thomas Grocery and Pump explores modern technology and rural storytelling.

Hande Sever’s latest installation explores how leaders in the US and Turkey have used visual art and film to project, modify, and erase history.

Hundreds of artists, writers, and intellectuals convened at the First World Festival of Black Arts in apparent harmony, but it was also a stage for contradictions and paradoxes to be unpacked.