Arts

This week, the National Gallery of Art finally acquired a major work by Faith Ringgold, the director of The Velvet Underground talks film, North America’s Hindu Nationalist problem, canceling legacy admissions, and more.

Anarchist illustrator N.O. Bonzo produces decentralized media in a highly bureaucratic cultural landscape. Their illustrations, murals, and literature emerge in unexpected places, from the streets of Portland, Oregon, to the far ends of Reddit and Twitter, addressing relations of labor and identity in the workplace and on the streets. Growth and care are central themes […]

With scavenged materials, Amanda Maciel Antunes constructs a motherland.

For Calderón Ruiz’s first exhibition, artists Esteban Ramón Pérez and Jaime Muñoz plumb the depths of Chicanx identity.

Council often uses humor as a political tool to expose systems of power and inequality in a society in which even death carries a high price tag.

An exhibition at the San Francisco Opera House pairs the work of incarcerated artists with Beethoven’s story of unjust imprisonment.

Many works take disruption and repetition as their themes, and many artists resurface in different sections, creating multiple affinities.

While staying as a house guest, a naked Le Corbusier defiled Gray’s minimalist, color-blocked walls that were only restored in 2015.

We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.

Tanega’s approach to mark-making comes across as stream of consciousness, as if she’s engaged in a conversation with herself.

This is Yuskavage’s great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime.

While hardly about the pandemic, or any of the other crises so afflicting us, all are invoked in this exhibition, which is also often tender and profoundly soulful.

These glowing, dynamic artworks reproduce something of Bosch’s chaotic energy, but on an immersive, multi-sensory scale.

This week, addressing a transphobic comedy special on Netflix, the story behind KKK hoods, cultural identity fraud, an anti-Semitic take on modern art, and more.

Open studio events can be overwhelming, but our guide can help you navigate the upcoming event.

Through the medium of paint, Nowinski seeks to connect the inner and outer states of her subjects.

Steckel compelled audiences to acknowledge uncomfortable realities about systemic sexism that persist decades later.

Did Jill Freedman, a leftist activist, create a pro-law enforcement series of images?

Thek rebelled against his early virtuosity, and chafed against the aspects of religion that rejected his gayness, while remaining a devout Catholic.

Capron says her creations reflect herself and her immigrant, Latinx community.