Vaginal Davis Is Queercore’s Fairy Godmother

Oct 10, 2025

The showstopper in Vaginal Davis’s new exhibition, Magnificent Product, at MoMA PS1 is a large phallus tucked into a rotating bed, titled “The Wicked Pavilion: Tween Bedroom” (2021). This massive recreation of the multidisciplinary artist’s preteen bedroom winks...

Required Reading

Oct 10, 2025

‣ For the Boston Review, Joan Wallach Scott reflects painfully and lyrically on today’s neo-McCarthyism, as the son of a former teacher who lost his job because of the original: My response to injustice these days is visceral rage at the powerful, but it’s...

How Textiles Weave Together the Cycle of Life

Oct 10, 2025

CHICAGO — What to wear this morning? Are the bedsheets clean? Paper or cloth for wiping up the mess in the kitchen? We mostly take such textiles for granted these days, coming, as they do, cheaply and from far away, bereft of meaning, unrevealing of the labor and...

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering “Political” Art

Oct 10, 2025

Los Angeles — A private Christian university in Malibu has closed an exhibition six months ahead of schedule, following requests from at least a dozen artists to withdraw from the show after the school removed or altered art it considered “political.” The news comes...

30 Bob Ross Paintings Head to Auction to Support Public Media 

Oct 10, 2025

“That’s what I like about painting: It gives you freedom,” mused the famed artist Bob Ross in a 1994 episode of his instructional television show The Joy of Painting. “You can create any illusion that you want.” Using his signature wet-on-wet oil technique, Ross...