Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

Julia Margaret Cameron, “Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!” (1867), carbon print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A) One word that kept coming to mind as I thought about the shows below is “visionary.” Whether it’s...

150 Years of American Art Comes to Life

Some summer days while I was in high school, my dad would give me a $20 bill, and I would take the train into the city for a drop-in life drawing class at the Art Students League of New York in Midtown. I wasn’t a very good student. Half the time, I’d pocket the money...

For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable

Along a wall of framed pen and marker drawings in Chloe Dzubilo, The Prince George Drawings at Participant Inc. is a text work that simply reads: “Stronger than life itself @ this point.” Invoking strength in the face of adversity can read as an empty cliché, but...