Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing 

Oct 16, 2025

An AR juxtaposition of Cannupa Hanska Luger, “Midéegaadi: Fire” (2021–) over Thomas Cole’s “View on the Catskills – Early Autumn” (1836–37) (all images courtesy Amplifier) Imagine traversing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing — the 75 galleries, the grand...

Weeks After Fire, Red Hook Open Studios Returns Defiantly 

Oct 15, 2025

Red Hook’s artist community is no stranger to life-altering disasters. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy’s deluge left the coastal Brooklyn enclave five feet underwater and without power for weeks, artists held benefit exhibitions of storm-damaged work. In its aftermath,...

A Community Art Show for Palestine Confronts Authoritarianism 

Oct 15, 2025

Nearly a year after its debut at a building near Columbia University’s campus, Hind’s House, an art exhibition and community education event, returned to a Washington Heights bookstore this weekend in a three-day event beginning Saturday, October 11.  Last year,...

10 Contemporary Roma Artists You Should Know

Oct 9, 2025

Earlier this year, my friend walked by Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s billboard “Beyond the Horizon” (2024–25), part of her On the Journey (2024) series. The work, displayed on a billboard on 18th street adjacent to the High Line in the heart of Manhattan, made...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

Oct 4, 2025

LOS ANGELES — The Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in LA, provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary art throughout the greater region, attempting to give coherent form to its sprawling and heterogeneous artistic landscape. With this year’s edition, opening to the...

Immigrant and Protest Imagery Shine at NYC’s Photobook Fest 

Oct 4, 2025

In a bustling Thursday night preview of the International Center of Photography’s (ICP) annual Photobook Fest, held at the institution’s Lower Manhattan location through Sunday, October 5, a few booths seemed to capture and quell the anxieties of the...

Madison Square Park Glows Up With Larry Bell’s Glass Cubes

Oct 2, 2025

The austere glass cubes for which Larry Bell is best known landed in New York City’s Madison Square Park this fall. Concurrently, a smaller show at the Judd Foundation showcases his lesser-known works on canvas, which Flavin Judd organized at his father’s art...

Is Political Protest a Collaborative Art Form? 

Oct 2, 2025

The 2010s might be remembered as the era of protest, with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations against economic inequality and corporate greed in New York City and the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong being two prime examples. When the Gezi Park protests...

Atlanta Art Fair Shines a Spotlight on the Southeast

Oct 2, 2025

ATLANTA — Pullman Yards, located about four miles from downtown Atlanta, is a loose assemblage of former industrial buildings, anchored by a massive brick, glass, and steel structure with worn concrete floors where train cars from the railroad company were once...

A Couple’s Quest to Heal Through Psychedelic Art

Oct 1, 2025

WAPPINGERS FALLS, New York — In 1974, Alex and Allyson Grey met at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, now part of Tufts University. They were both in an art class they described to me as “performance, conceptual art, and mixed media.” Over 50 years later,...

The Ukrainian Artist Who Embroiders to Survive 

Sep 30, 2025

KYIV — A block away from Kyiv’s Independence Square — once home to protests that ushered in Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, and today the site of thousands of blue-and-yellow flags commemorating the soldiers who’ve died in the war with Russia — an 85-year-old...

The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene

Sep 26, 2025

In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz sat down with pioneering queer photographer Peter Hujar as part of a project for which she had subjects record everything that happened during a single day, and then talk with her about that day. She didn’t end up using the...