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The Complex Fashion History of Colonial Spanish America
An exhibition at Blanton Museum of Art encapsulates the complicated ways in which Indigenous and European traditions cross-pollinated through textiles and accessories.
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How to Crack the Catholic Code of the Old Masters
Suzanna Ivanič's new book Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism is an essential primer on how Catholicism intersects with art history.
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Sex Tourism With Statues
Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps is a cringe-worthy display of “spiritual colonialism.”
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Why Archaeologists Are Fuming Over Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse Series
In an open letter, the Society for American Archaeology accused journalist Graham Hancock's docuseries of disparaging experts while promoting “racist, white supremacist ideologies.”
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Is Body Horror the New Intimacy?
While sex is clearly in its cultural flop era, intimacy with ourselves and with others is being deftly portrayed in body horrors.
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Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party
Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.
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Ukrainians Demand Their Place in Art History
No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as "Russian"?
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What Rights Do Artists Have When Their Work Is Destroyed?
A string of recent mural removals raises important questions about how public artworks are protected and what recourse, if any, exists for artists in the event of their destruction.
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What Was Hiroshima Like Before the Atom Bomb?
Wakaji Matsumoto's photographs provide a glimpse of a world in the midst of transition into the next stage of global capitalism and Westernization.
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What Does TikTok’s “Corecore” Have to Do With Dada?
As art history buffs on the app have pointed out, both movements attribute meaning to the meaningless.
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The Argentine Artist Making Paintings on Devalued Currency
Amid a worsening inflation crisis, Sergio Guillermo Diaz’s banknote artworks are a poignant symbol of Argentinian resilience.
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Did Air Pollution Inspire Impressionism?
A new study posits that rising smog levels in 19th-century London and Paris likely played a role in blurring the lines of realism.
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Cézanne Saw the Nobility of an Apple
The French painter felt he had to rise to the challenge of one question above all things else: What exactly is it to be a modern artist?
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Who Gets to Honor Native Women in the US?
“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed.
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Omar Ba Paints the Pride and Pain of the Colonized
The artist’s solo US museum debut at the Baltimore Museum of Art is a contemptuous, at times satirical, take on oppression that gives way to a new history.
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Basking in Vermeer’s Light at Rijksmuseum
In Vermeer’s paintings, the world is much larger than we imagined and yet somehow deep, meaningful, and magical.
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We Asked AI to Review Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” at MoMA
What does the internet's most popular Artificial Intelligence chatbot have to say about Anadol’s AI-based artwork?
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Why Is No One Talking About the Artist-Daughters?
We need more support for the women who have to balance an art practice with caregiving for their ailing parents.
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The Contentious History of Frank Lloyd Wright’s First LA Home
In their exhibition at the Hollyhock House, Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman engage with the building’s peculiarities — and its origin story.
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How Not to Artwash Saudi Arabia’s Gruesome Human Rights Record
Under which conditions should an art museum ethically and responsibly do business with a repressive authoritarian government?
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