From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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Diedrick Brackens Unravels and Re-Weaves Histories
In his first exhibition in the United Kingdom, the artist creates large-scale tapestries that draw upon the brutal racialized history of cotton.
Pratchaya Phinthong’s Visions of Value
The artist’s sculptures and video works, which meditate on money, politics, and power, may help us understand our worldwide far-right upheaval.
The Gallery That Captured the Spirit of the Black Arts Movement
Founded in 1969 by Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey, Acts of Art exemplified the spirit of a subversive and consequential period in Black art history.
A New Albert Barnes Biography Portrays a Cantankerous Collector
Blake Gopnik’s book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes’s involvement in Impressionim and the Harlem Renaissance.
Plunderer Shows How Art Looting Continues to Pay Off
The two-part documentary asks us to rethink what we know about looting, art restitution, the art market, and who the war’s heroes and villains really were.
Celebrating 35 Years of Rasquachismo
An exhibition explores the distinctions in the term, conceived by scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe a Chicanx aesthetics of resourcefulness.
How Norman Bluhm Reinvented Gestural Abstraction
Long an admirer of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, Bluhm sought to recreate their sensual forms, unearthly light, and infinite space in abstraction.
The Luminous Magnetism of the Transformistas
Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla’s sumptuous 1982 film about trans sex workers in Caracas is the centerpiece of a new exhibition.
We Are the New Romantics
Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.