Arts

With her clay relief sculptures, Brie Ruais probes the exit wound and its deep psychological implications.

In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”

As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.

The art world has paid attention to other artists from the same era, but we have not done the same with Sonia Gechtoff, and it is time that we did.

Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat.

These four artists dig into the cultural and geologic history of the enclave of Staten Island to produce work that resonates with the core of bell hooks​’s​ commendation to love.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.

When looking at images from the golden age of Sudanese photography, I was reminded to listen as much as look.

“I’m making a financial instrument as an artwork. That’s the new reality.” She stares unwavering into the distance. “What is existence on the blockchain? Does an NFT exist?” 

To showcase this work exactly 500 years after Magellan’s conquest of the Philippines in a space that, 134 years ago, was a “human zoo” of Indigenous people from the Philippines, is certainly poignant.

Since 2014, Alison has been visually dissecting Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body, which theorizes the split subjectivity women experience in language, an inherently patriarchal structure.

N.I.H., short for No Humans Involved, was an acronym used by the LAPD to refer to “young Black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner-city ghettos.”

Cha, who was murdered at 31 years old, explored the nuances of forced migration and language.

Taping a banana wasn’t enough, so the art world had to do something even more stupid with food.

The autumn holiday of Sukkot continues to offer solace and community for new generations.

There is nothing extraordinary about Murphy’s subjects and yet there is something inexplicably disturbing about her paintings and drawings.

Participatory photography aims to counter the pitfalls of photography as an exploitative or voyeuristic medium.

In the early modern era, divine and erotic passions were not as polar as they may seem to us today.

A history of the Golden Age of Hollywood from the perspective of someone who worked behind the scenes.