January 13, 2020
Targeting Iran’s Cultural Heritage Means Targeting Human Beings
Targeting Iranian cultural heritage is first and foremost bad because of the devastating effects it would have on Iranians. We in the rest of the world may feel a real loss, but that is secondary at best.
Michael Press
How Does a Black Man Fit Into an Edward Hopper Painting?
The Edward Hopper and the American Hotel exhibition invites some visitors to spend the night in a room inspired by one of Hopper’s paintings and our critic to ponder who it’s really designed for.
Seph Rodney
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
Ilene Dube
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El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Presents The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades
A retrospective charts the trajectory of an unsung feminist artist, whose radical performances and psychically-charged sculptures invoke the Divine.
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Governor Cuomo’s Bizarre Poster Illustrates His Vision of New York State in 2020
A new image, conceived by the New York State Governor, is a mess.
Center for Art Law in New York Launches an Immigration Clinic for Visual Artists
The clinic will provide $10 consultation sessions to guide international artists through the laborious process of obtaining an artist visa to the United States.
How The Legal System Left Artist Purvis Young’s Beneficiaries Empty-Handed
Young left nearly 2,000 works of art to his close friend and her family. An article in the Washington Post Magazine explains how, after Young’s death, a group of lawyers kept the works instead.
A Musician’s Fictional, Indistinct Futures Take the Shape of a Novel
Leaning into the imaginative possibility of text, Félicia Atkinson’s A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback grafts a poetic, discursive dialogue that fills in the detailed sonic worlds of her recent album.
DeForrest Brown, Jr.
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Stamps Gallery Presents: Taking a Stand
Bringing together lively and energetic work, Taking a Stand (Jan 17-Feb 29) highlights the ways in which artists build solidarity and shape contemporary culture as active participants in our society.
A View from the Easel
Take a look inside some artist studios in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Hrag Vartanian
Volunteering With a Land Artist to Make Laborious, Ethereal “Snow Drawings”
The impermanence of Simon Beck’s land art, which cuts beautiful and massive patterns into fresh snowfall, made the experience all the more gratifying.
RJ Rushmore
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Most of the feedback you get in art school is helpful, but not all of it.
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