Arts

This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.

Graham is inspired by science and draws on her deep knowledge of it, which ranges from chemistry and molecular structures to botany.

One of Red Star’s many strengths is her ability to examine both the past and what’s still to come.

Whereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible.

Birgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland’s ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.

Rather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection.

Hambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost.

The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.

In Calzolari’s recent paintings, organic and metaphysical forces are one: vapors are rudimentary atmospheric gas particles, but they also signify wonder and bliss.

When Adeliza McHugh opened the Candy Store gallery she envisioned art that moved; art that was interesting; art, as she often said, with a “kick.”

Cleavage at Arcade Project Curatorial, the artist’s first solo show in NYC, pondered how one can hold an identity alongside a shifting sense of home.

The world’s oldest art biennial is back, and this year we’ve found a way to make it all a little easier for you to navigate with our fun-filled Bingo card.

Anthropomorphized frog, insect, and bird figures bob in the background, dancing at the same spring ball.

Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond uses speculative fiction as a critical lens on culture.

At NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders.

Beyond a mere homage to LA’s aesthetic vocabulary, Alvaro Barrington sees past the superficiality of Hollywood to celebrate the myth-making at its center.

Far from empty wildernesses, the ancestral lands of the Sámi people in the European Arctic are ecologically diverse sites of culture, care, and collective endeavor.

After an early career as a minimalist, Villa’s turn toward cultural expression was influenced by his study of Oceanic and African art to fill in the lacuna of Filipino art in art historical narratives.

In Plato’s Closet, artist Timothy Hull gestures to the opportunities for creative play and repurposing that looking backward can pose.

Printmaking, especially screen printing, has been a key tool for Chicanos to communicate who they are and what they care about since the 1960s.