The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan

With a fiscal crisis looming, subways and roadways deteriorating, and crime rates on the rise, mid-1970s New York City tangoed with turbulence. In 1975, bristling against budget cuts that threatened city workers’ jobs, a group of police officers distributed “survival...

Casa Susanna Is a Glimpse Into a Midcentury Refuge for Trans Women

Anytime the word “discover” is used without irony these days, it’s worth pausing to consider why something is being framed that way. When I visited Casa Susanna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was noticeable there in the first sentence of the exhibition’s...

Smithsonian’s New Trump Impeachment Label Is Shorter and Safer

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, installed a new label describing President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings in its permanent exhibition on United States presidents after widespread backlash. The...

Artist Spotlight: Yuwei Tu

Yuwei Tu Using a layered process, Yuwei Tu (b. 1995, Sichuan, China) articulates the nuance and complexity of interior worlds through painting. Her work is informed by personal experiences and investigations in the construction of identities and relationships to...