“I arrive at the studio in the morning and play a perreo song by Karol G, Ivy Queen, or Tokischa; I dance; that is my meditation.”
Art
Rose B. Simpson’s Soaring Metal Sentinels Watch Over Madison Square Park
The artist explained that the sculptures in Seed “transform the nature of a hectic and scary city, in a sense, to a place that’s really safe.”
When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World
Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans.
A Haitian Artist Fights Gang Life With Art
Lesly Pierre Paul’s New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs.
Stan VanDerBeek’s Virtual Windows on the World
A cacophony of life, death, and perfume ads, transmitted across the same frequency, VanDerBeek’s fax collages captures an “international picture language.”
Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain
The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries.
A New Art Weekend Touches Down in New Jersey
More than 100 venues across the state will take part in the inaugural Garden State Art Weekend.
How Hindu Iconography Became an Extension of Right-Wing Nationalism
Ubiquitous imagery of aggressive, hypermasculine deities across India is a chilling tool of the Hindu right.
How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Sonia Delaunay Was Modernism’s Renaissance Woman
With Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, we get to glimpse pockets of the artist’s work across media, and feel her expansive and collaborative production.
The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a globally networked movement of sprawling self-determination energized by the new modalities of Black subjectivity.