Two Nepalese Antiquities in the Rubin Museum Identified as Looted
Two carved architectural elements in the collection of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York were identified as stolen by two groups dedicated to […]
Read moreA San Francisco Muralist Painting “Latino Culture In All Its Beauty”
SAN FRANCISCO — Once in a while, Josué Rojas, who left his job in February as executive director of Acción Latina, an arts organization, wakes […]
Read moreWhen Disney Declared War on Deutschland
SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine Donald Duck working overtime in an arms factory, wearing a swastika on his military uniform and quacking “Heil Hitler!” over and […]
Read moreA Forgotten Female Flower Painter, Revived
In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming,” the model is his wife, but she’s also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now […]
Read moreTrashy Italian TV and Other Pandemic Escapes
Four career-oriented men are lounging on the patio of an upscale restaurant in an upscale mountainside locale, really feeling themselves. One works in healthcare; one […]
Read moreRequired Reading
Kriston Capps has a lot to say about the scourge of immersive exhibitions, particularly the van Gogh ones popularized by the terrible TV show Emily […]
Read moreObjects that Help Tell the Story of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s Romance
The relationship between American novelist, poet, and art patron Gertrude Stein, and her American life partner and Parisian scene doyenne Alice B. Toklas is one […]
Read moreTomashi Jackson Rediscovers Long Island’s Beleaguered Past
WATER MILL, NY — Until recently, artists and vacationers lived inexpensively in many parts of the Hamptons and the surrounding communities. Now, of course, that […]
Read moreThe Art Students League of New York Expands Its Online Classes With a New Platform
The Art Students League of New York advances its online art course program with the new platform e-telier. Since launching in May 2020, when the […]
Read moreThis Brooklyn Subway Station Is a Portal Into Marcel Dzama’s Surrealist Universe
In May 2020, amid New York City’s COVID-19 lockdown, Brooklyn-based artist Marcel Dzama shared his most unexpected longing during home isolation with GARAGE Magazine: “Riding […]
Read moreThe Indigenous and Female Roots of Harvesting Flax
EDINBURGH — Dig, rake, sow, riddle, water, weed, pull, ripple, winnow. For her solo exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, In Relation to Linum, Christine […]
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