Tag: Visual Art

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billie Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

Museums rose to the challenge of responding to HIV/AIDS. They can do so again in the face of COVID-19.

Race in the fashion industry.

Activists fighting to remove statues of slavers and colonizers understand better than most how public memorials can be a form of violence.

For him, books were instruments—things to do something with.

A draft executive order condemns the modernism of an aesthetic elite in favor of popular neoclassicism.

An interview with historian Nell Irvin Painter.

Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity.

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

The cult artist and author proves an evasive subject for biography, a fact that would surely have delighted him.

In his acerbic and often hilarious Village Voice column, Gary Indiana documented a cultural world being lost to AIDS and corporate greed.

The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.

From scrapbooks to family albums, a new book presents their visual testimonies from Kashmir.

Let's all move to the moon.

Larry Sultan’s elegiac photography captures the suburban American home.