What Can Art Do for Women?

A group show of women artists at The Contemporary Austin addresses the weight and urgency of the current political moment.

What Just Above Midtown Meant for Black Artists 

The long-gone art gallery afforded Black artists a space to create without having to consider the pressures of the commercial art market or the fickle nature of nonprofit art institutions.

Ukrainians Demand Their Place in Art History

No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as “Russian”?

Girls, Gods, and Rabbits 

Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds.

Required Reading

This week, aliens might be closer than we thought, the Orange County Museum of Art is not ok, Harvard is a mess, how casteism is hurting representation in the sciences, and much more.

Shirley Jaffe’s Outlier Beginnings 

A show of early works by Shirley Jaffe challenges viewers to think about the road Jaffe pursued in her art, and what it means to go your own way.

Lucio Fontana’s Third Dimension

Nothing was shaped or glazed by Fontana without his consideration of how light could interact, animate, or even mystify form.