Take a Trip Down the Catwalk With Andy Warhol 

Aug 5, 2025

Andy Warhol, “Male Bust” (c. 1957), ink on Strathmore paper (all photos Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic) Before Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo boxes, and famous faces became hallmarks of Andy Warhol’s culture-defining pop art, the artist worked as a department-store...

Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing 

Aug 4, 2025

HOUSTON — To say that I’m drawn to Jillian Conrad’s art might sound like an all-too-easy pun in a review of a show that explores drawing, but the sentiment holds. Since the early aughts, I’ve been following the psychic line of her practice. Conrad’s work marks the...

Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art 

Aug 4, 2025

LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the arts of war,” says the narrator of a United States Army film production over documentary footage of male figures drawing before it cuts to a clip of an animated cartoon...

How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World 

Aug 1, 2025

You could’ve fried an egg on the sweltering sidewalk I trekked across last Friday to get to the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) — which is, happily, a city-mandated cooling center. Lately, the Central Branch’s resplendent Art Deco facade has been illuminated after dark...

The Berlin Biennale’s Complicit Silence

Jul 31, 2025

BERLIN — The Berlin Biennale had not even opened its doors to the public when criticism started rolling in. In May, curator Zasha Colah told an interviewer, “There is no censorship, I would say, in Germany.” In reality, there is ample documentation of the German...

Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic

Jul 31, 2025

In 2008, I gave birth at home, in the bed I still sleep in today, to my second child; and instead of marveling at their vernix-covered scalp and the fact of their being born in the caul during a full moon, I had an extended anxiety attack, convinced I wasn’t a...

Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown

Jul 30, 2025

Picture this: You are a set of clothes hangers strung out on a rooftop clothesline, placed there by a family trying to extend their supply of square footage and fresh air in their small apartment (“Drying Laundry,” 2004). You are part of the family order created...

The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism

Jul 29, 2025

MONTEREY PARK, California — “EN CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCIÓN” “LESBIANAS. UNIDAS. ¡FELICES!” Such battle cries embody the poetic optimism of Latina lesbian activism across borders at the Vincent Price Art Museum’s On the Side of Angels. Captured by posters for marches in...

Memory Becomes Form in the Art of Candida Alvarez

Jul 29, 2025

Candida Alvarez’s Circle, Point, Hoop at El Museo del Barrio gets its title from a 1996 collage-painting by the artist. The understated work — a dark blue circle adorned with white string threaded through nails — is a stark contrast to the vibrant mosaics of color...

A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”

Jul 29, 2025

LOS ANGELES — From the 1920s to ’60s, the Catskill Mountains, with its woody resorts and bungalows, were a playground for middle-class Jewish families traveling Upstate from New York City. Dads grilled while lounging mothers shielded beehive hairdos from their...

How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art

Jul 28, 2025

Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a testament to the enduring power of the titular British artist’s oeuvre that, even at a substantial 272 pages, Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures...

The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms

Jul 28, 2025

ALBANY, New York — Tree roots have long served as a useful metaphor for articulating connections between people, places, and ideas. And yet, it’s a limited structure. In the 1980s, French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari famously offered the rhizome as...