Required Reading

This week, lessons from the Philly art museum strike, Airbnb’s role in the housing crisis, the difference between “chai” and “tea,” and more.

Dean Fleming Paints the Fourth Dimension

Fleming’s geometric paintings are not the Minimalism of Greenberg and Judd, with their insistence on flatness and the elimination of space in painting.

Georgia O’Keeffe, Reframed

A new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum renders the artist’s persona through newly identified photographs.

What if Van Gogh Could Paint Your Hometown?

Neither Picasso nor Hilma af Klint ever visited the Faroe Islands, but in a new exhibition, a museum uses AI to imagine how these artists would have painted their archipelago.

Sandra Payne’s Bling Manifesto

The unabashedly feminine oeuvre of the collagist, sculptor, and conceptual artist is a smorgasbord of shimmer and sequin, a bling manifesto for the senses.

Ken Lum Holds Up a Mirror to the World 

With their sophisticated interplay between image, text, materials, color and driving ideas, Lum’s works often have a pronounced emotional impact.