Elizabeth Foundation Makes Offer on Iconic Chelsea Artist Building

A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An esteemed nonprofit wants to turn a West Chelsea arts building on the market into an artist residency program while keeping longtime tenants in their...

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall

This fall, museums around Los Angeles are showcasing art’s ability to foster community, to rage against injustice, and to rewrite history. A historical survey of Mail Art in Latin America highlights subversive networks of artistic production in the face of...

Four New York City Shows to See Right Now

Histories and futures crisscross in some of our favorite shows at the moment. Paper sculptures by Rejin Leys ensconce themselves in the past, installed throughout the historic King Manor Museum, while Christian Marclay imagines doors as portals for transformation in...

How Art Deco Changed American Cinema

It’s 1925. It’s a new age, all the lines on the economic graphs are going up, and surely no future conflict could ever be as bad as what Europe had just gone through — they didn’t call it “the Great War” for nothing. That spring, the French government inaugurated its...

Raheleh Filsoofi: At the Edge of Arrival

Raheleh Filsoofi is an itinerant artist, feminist curator, and community advocate. Using clay and sound as her primary expressive mediums, her work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism. Her art aims to disrupt the borders that exist...