A mutual excitement is shared between two people who have encountered a Shannon Garden-Smith work. Vibrant carpets of sand, ...

Of the five figures depicted in Pablo Picasso’s enduringly outrageous Las Chicas de Avignon (the title he supposedly ...

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman mosaics personified chronos as a god turning ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

Within the flood of new trans memoirs and books offering their definitive takes on trans theory in the past few years, I gratefully found hannah baer’s book, Trans Girl Suicide Museum (Hesse Press, ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist has a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery this May but hails ...

Impresario, entrepreneur, gambler, and connoisseur – the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) was all of these. He was also a force in fostering appreciation of the now beloved, but ...

Visibly shaken professors made a special announcement at our university’s recent Race Equity Caucus meeting. They’d been harassed for participating in a virtual conference called “Dismantling Global ...