Arts

What’s an artifact, what’s an artwork, what’s a prop, what’s decoration, what’s disposable — these are questions that Aguilar has taken up with great enthusiasm.

In Space Popular’s presentation at the Sir John Soane’s Museum the VR content does not complement the physical, but widens the gulf between art history and contemporary art making.

Every artwork at Arts in Bushwick seemed to be in dialogue with the uncertainty and unpredictability of the moment.

The Guyanese-British artist’s commission for the museum was created in a tense dialogue with collection objects that are connected to conquest.

This week, fictional characters with student debt, a Gen X guide to Web3, landlord rent increases, neoliberals and Salman Rushdie, money and happiness, and more.

The interplay between bodies and emotions in Goring’s work, and their potential to be transformative, reveals the politics that pump through the artist’s ever-exposed heart.

His detailed images of microscopic aquatic creatures suggest a version of Surrealism’s dream realities.

Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity.

Ideal Home captures the disorientation of a moment in which environmental crises have pierced the domestic sphere.

Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.

The internet can be a crucible for both cruelty and the complexities of trying to counter it. What if we let the heroes stay dead?

Much coverage of the upcoming sale of the building that houses the mural portrays it as a covert intervention into the urban fabric, but the reality, like most things Banksy, is more complicated.

Artists are resorting to platforms like Onlyfans and Pornhub to show work that was banned from the social media network.

Wilson’s installation challenges not just outwardly violent historical figures but subtle colonial aesthetics still embedded in the city’s more liberal public monuments.

The artist says her sculpture of a mother figure, located at the southeast entrance of the park, represents “a guide to search and honor our past histories.”

The curators of Son de Allá y Son de Acá emphasize the importance of creating pathways and fellowship for Mexican-American, Chicanx, and Latinx artists throughout the Southwest.

Guadalupe Maravilla’s first New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative.

We know from historical records that the female-born French saint presented as a man with short black hair. Why, then, is she so damn feminine in artistic portrayals?

What most stands out for me about 52 Artists at the Aldrich Contemporary is the sense of both engaging with and resisting categories.

Jake Scharbach’s paintings dump on some iconic portraits as a way to highlight the crisis we’re living through.