Rashaad Newsome’s Futurist Manifesto of Black Joy

Jul 17, 2025

Rashaad Newsome’s Assembly is technically a documentary about a performance. But calling it that feels small. Yes, it documents his installation at the Park Avenue Armory, but what it offers is a vision, a map, a speculative ritual for survival. At its core, Assembly...

Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art

Jul 16, 2025

HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape Cod, intending to cross the Atlantic in a 12.6-foot vessel called Ocean Wave and then mount an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in his native Netherlands. The journey was,...

150 Years of American Art Comes to Life

Jul 15, 2025

Some summer days while I was in high school, my dad would give me a $20 bill, and I would take the train into the city for a drop-in life drawing class at the Art Students League of New York in Midtown. I wasn’t a very good student. Half the time, I’d pocket the money...

For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable

Jul 15, 2025

Along a wall of framed pen and marker drawings in Chloe Dzubilo, The Prince George Drawings at Participant Inc. is a text work that simply reads: “Stronger than life itself @ this point.” Invoking strength in the face of adversity can read as an empty cliché, but...

The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House

Jul 14, 2025

The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has...