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May 6, 2016
Hilary Reid
A Century of Conflicted, Complicated Motherhood in Art
A new art book aims to show that biology is not destiny.
April 26, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Painted Out of Government Art
This year, Congress banned funding for oil paintings of public servants—keeping women and minorities underrepresented in government art.
April 22, 2016
E. Tammy Kim
Can Feminist Sculpture Redeem L.A.’s Gentrifying Arts District?
“Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016” is the first show at Hauser Wirth and Schimmel.
April 21, 2016
Michelle Legro
It turns out there was a real possibility of death while looking at Damien Hirst’s
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
April 14, 2016
The New Republic
Remembering Legendary
New Republic
Cartoonist
Vint Lawrence
April 12, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Colombian artist Oscar Murillo flushed his passport down an airplane toilet to protest Western privilege.
March 29, 2016
Magazine
Ian Volner
State of the Art
The Metropolitan Museum makes a bid for the modern.
March 25, 2016
Ellen Handler Spitz
The Impious Delights of Hieronymus Bosch
A new exhibition celebrating the artist's 500th anniversary oddly presents him as a religious moralist.
March 8, 2016
Jillian Steinhauer
Taryn Simon’s Floral Politik
At the Gagosian, the artist sets the table with bouquets present during international diplomacy.
March 4, 2016
Stephanie Heimann
What Makes a Winter Picture?
A hundred images from around the world challenge the beauty of the winter wonderland.
February 29, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Sculptor Anish Kapoor has been given “exclusive rights” to the blackest of black paints and the art world is outraged.
February 26, 2016
Alex Shephard
Does Rubio have a plant in the audience, or did an Edvard Munch painting just come to life in Texas?
February 8, 2016
Stephanie Heimann
Simone Sapienza’s United States of Vietnam
The Italian photographer captures the youthful spirit of a country looking toward a capitalist future.
February 5, 2016
Laura Marsh
Buy an old couch on Craigslist, get a free $65,000 lost work of art by Andy Warhol.
February 1, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Is this photo of Ai Wei Wei posing as the drowned Syrian toddler “powerful” or just kind of stupid?
January 6, 2016
Jeff Taylor
The Secret to All Great Art Forgeries
A convicted forger shares his secrets.
December 29, 2015
Ratik Asokan
The Many Faces of John Berger
An artist-by-artist account of 50 years of criticism rearranges the canon of Western art.
December 28, 2015
Magazine
Laura Marsh
The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books
These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.
December 23, 2015
Meaghan Murphy
Is this the ugliest museum sign in the country?
December 14, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
Photographing Old Russia with a Modern Filter
Young Russian Instagrammers are reimagining their country's cultural spaces for themselves.
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