How did the artist’s massive “Clara-Clara” (1983) end up in the backyard of a former water treatment facility on the city’s outskirts?
Art
Jim Dine Gets to Work
For Dine, physical labor and art-making are interchangeable: “When you paint every day, all year long, then the subject is essentially the act of working.”
Architectural Reimaginings of Le Corbusier’s Only African Project
Many responses to the Villa Baizeau in two exhibitions take up the notion of memory — and the idea of how life affects the built environment, and vice versa.
A San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds
With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime.
10 Art Shows to See in New York This April
This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.
Activists Create Life-Sized Cyanotype in Trans Solidarity Action
Artist Cassils led “Etched in Light,” a participatory visual art and sonic performance in Washington, DC this weekend.
How Do Artists See Themselves?
Self-portraits by Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and more explore not just how these artists saw the world but also what “selfie” culture says about us.
Matthias Grünewald’s Gruesome Good Friday
The 16th-century “Isenheim Altarpiece” confronts us with the reality of suffering, violence, and death in a century where violence is both omnipresent and obscured.
Required Reading
This week, a Birkin bag lawsuit, Central Park’s sidewalks, political neutrality in history classrooms, the Broad’s costly expansion, and much more.
10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This April
This month: Rollie McKenna, Michael Hambouz, Alina Tenser, Pearl Cowan, and much more.
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.
A View From the Easel
“My studio space doubles as a place of meditation, allowing me to enter a state of flow where ideas move freely and barriers dissolve.”