Arts

If painting was Mitchell’s sickness, it was also her salvation

The story behind the piece “Fallen” (2021) by Jean Shin is that a hemlock tree, now horizontal, cut from its roots, and suspended above the ground by two boulders, was going to die anyway. The groundskeeping team at the Olana State Historic Site couldn’t heal it. Because of the tree’s size it was feared that […]

What struck me most about LJ Robert’s Carry You With Me is the way in which it depicts some of the complexity of queer New York.

“I’ve always felt that home is a fraught place which is constantly going through ruptures,” says Jagdeep Raina.

The main aim of the show is to offer a creative, clever perspective on the reasons behind the alienated and addicted relationship we sustain with social media platforms.

It is perhaps no surprise that Wiley’s oeuvre is a favorite among curators seeking to inject new relevance into their collection of European masters

From COVID-19 vaccine piñatas to cheeky Rothko interpretations.

My sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained.

This week, Bad Art Friends, framing Latinx art, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” the comic, Facebook’s continuing problems, and more.

Many of the works in Iðavöllur are big and chock-full of issues and socially engaged ideas, like so much art elsewhere.

Women digital artists introduced feminist concepts into two other areas of popular visual culture: video gaming and anime.

Thomas Nozkowski believed that each person’s experience of the everyday was fundamentally unique and set out to honor that in his work.

So many of us have seen this painting too often in reproduction, without perhaps ever having really seen it at all.

Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”

This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate.

Across five locations in Antwerp, the ModeMuseum shows how the delicate, weblike fabric became a staple of art, craft, fashion, and commerce.

The exhibition includes paintings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, along with contemporary works focusing on habitat protection and environmental sustainability.

No one can deny that Chicago tackles “big” topics, but paradoxically it’s her most intimate and personal work that comes across as universal.

Through hand-colored photographs, artists Waswo X. Waswo and Rajesh Soni explore the tradition of the Gauri Dance.

Every Saturday, Eleonore Koch visited the older painter Alfredo Volpi’s São Paulo studio, learning, in her words, “through observation and being together.”