Fine Art

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike Lightning Strike

A movement called the Women’s Strike has been drawing hundreds of thousands of people to protest drastic abortion restrictions in Poland in recent months.

Dec 14, 2020 / OppArt / Various Contributors

Abstraction at a Distance

Abstraction at a Distance Abstraction at a Distance

A return to the galleries after New York City’s shutdown.

Nov 11, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Celia Paul Sits for Her Own Portrait

Celia Paul Sits for Her Own Portrait Celia Paul Sits for Her Own Portrait

The painter’s memoir Self-Portrait is a revelation.   

Nov 9, 2020 / Sophie Haigney

An Epic Mural Prophesies Large-Scale Climate Destruction

An Epic Mural Prophesies Large-Scale Climate Destruction An Epic Mural Prophesies Large-Scale Climate Destruction

A mountain landscape, upon closer inspection, reveals rampant floods, tornadoes, and fires.

Nov 9, 2020 / Feature / David Opdyke and Lawrence Weschler

Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston

Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston

We should be able to distinguish racist imagery from imagery depicting racists.

Oct 30, 2020 / Barry Schwabsky

Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums

Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums

After untold exploitation and erasure, Native artwork is being undermined by fraud.

Oct 20, 2020 / Chris O’Connell, Savannah Maher, and The Texas Observer

Pier Paolo Pasolini in front of a biblical scene during the filming of La Ricotta, 1962.

Behind the Myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini Behind the Myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini

On the artistic afterlife of the Italian filmmaker, poet, novelist, and polemicist.

Sep 28, 2020 / Barry Schwabsky

A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office

A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office

Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day.

Sep 22, 2020 / Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe

Ayad Akhtar, Shahzia Sikander

The Incantatory Power of Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander The Incantatory Power of Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

The two artistic geniuses—a novelist and a visual artist—discuss US politics, Islamophobia, and their recent work.

Sep 15, 2020 / Q&A / Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

Portraits of a Pandemic

Portraits of a Pandemic Portraits of a Pandemic

Drawing the nation.

Aug 7, 2020 / Steve Brodner

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