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If you’re in New York City this spring, you’ve already got a leg-up on this month’s mini crossword featuring shows from our seasonal guide, a pitch-black ink you might’ve used in art class, recent pro-Palestine demonstrations, and the answer to a maxim you’ve probably heard before.
Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about crosswords. More by Natan Last
Whenever French 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is mentioned, it’s almost always as a counterpoint to her better-known “rival,” Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.
Her face has gazed over midtown Manhattan traffic for over a century, but it wasn’t until 2023 that Hettie Anderson received official public recognition in words.
Women figurative realist painters can propel their careers by entering to win $50,000 and a traveling solo exhibition of their work. Applications are open through October 4.
Dozens of artists and project spaces in the Brooklyn neighborhood opened their doors this weekend, inviting the public behind the scenes.
The drawings, taken from ledger books made by Native people imprisoned in the 19th century, were sold at auction in 2022 against tribal members’ wishes.
Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy brings together dozens of artists for the inaugural Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival on April 19–21.
Carbs, comedy, and colorful frescoes abound in today’s mini puzzle!
The Time is Always Now emphasizes the continuing importance of Black identity, visibility, and recognition in predominantly White society.
The 2024 art competition and festival awards over $100,000 in cash prizes to artists across the Southeast. On view April 26–May 4 in Lake City, South Carolina.
Artist Giulia Cenci’s new installation in NYC has viewers questioning the impacts of arbitrary hierarchies imposed by the human race.
The poet, writer, and abstract painter who inspired a generation died in 2021 at the age of 96.
