Arts

Ortiz’s radical approach to art led from unleashing of aggression through ritualistic performances to political engagement and the founding of El Museo del Barrio.

West Virginia, the only state wholly in Appalachia, tends to find itself in the national news for political reasons but the state’s vibrant arts scene rarely receives national press.

A month-by-month visual guide to the museum exhibitions and art events you should check out in New York City this season.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Dan Levenson, Lawrence Weiner, Kaari Upson, Ray Anthony Barrett, and more.

The Collection Bowl is about fundraising as well as supporting drag performers and those behind the scenes who have been impacted by COVID-19.

In her solo exhibition Sticker Book, Julie Alpert remains loyal to the elements of craft while reaching for intergenerational connections.

The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum’s Feminine Power, a show about the feminine.

Carlos Bunga’s architectural installation in the Reina Sofía’s Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile.

From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies.

The exhibition Shall Make, Shall Be at Manhattan’s Federal Hall wants to educate us critically about the Bill of Rights amendments, but nearly half of the displays are dysfunctional.

The site-specific, high-tech, experiential festival is coming back to the streets of Taos.

This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being “Asian” in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.

The Ent Center for the Arts’s program Art WithOut Limits pops up in unexpected spaces.

Swiss-Haitian-Finnish artist Sasha Huber has spent the last fifteen years trying to undo her countryman’s problematic legacy.

In 1911 Matisse created “The Red Studio,” a self-enclosed world in his studio, by showing 11 earlier works of art, without the presence of the artist.

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of Malinche prompts new conversations about one Indigenous woman’s turbulent story.

Whether in a 17th-century mansion, an imagined Georgian bedroom, or a contemporary loft, the unconscious experience remains unadulterated.

The archive illustrates the state’s unique social, political, cultural, and artistic DNA while highlighting underheard voices, stories, and perspectives.

With The Black Image Center, a group of young photographers has established a space for Black image makers in need of a place to create.

The artist serves as a proxy through which the complexities of Gulf War politics, refugeeism, dictatorship, and resilience can be examined in intuitive and material ways.