Stitching and Writing on the Margin

January 25, 2021
Former journalist Sabine Heinlein is charting the history of zoonotic diseases not on magazine covers, but quilts.

Never Shalem

April 16, 2020
A dynamic new generation of Palestinian and Druze women artists is coming up in Israel.

Heavier Than Air

November 7, 2019
Colombian artist Ruby Rumié confronts domestic violence.
El Anatsui, Three Angles, façade of CMOA, (2018). Photograph by Shael Shapiro

The Carnegie International Explores its Past With an Eye to the Future

February 7, 2019
The exhibition's 57th edition casts a wide net, and the result is bold and thoughtful.

Seeing Art in Medical Archives

June 27, 2018
On both sides of the Atlantic, art and medicine mingle.

Shawn Walker, Cultural Anthropologist

February 7, 2018
A visit with the photographer and activist, whose first solo retrospective is now on exhibit at Steven Kasher Gallery.

The Incendiary Photography of Jill Freedman

December 6, 2017
Irreverent and incisive photographs of a 1968 camp on the National Mall evoke the power of protest.

The Greater (Grater) Divide

June 19, 2017
Considering recent contemporary art in Israel.

Cranky, Creative, and Controversial

February 9, 2017
Recalling artists' collectives of the late ’50s and early ’60s.

Charlotte Moorman Exposed

November 15, 2016
A gallery pays tribute to the avant-garde cellist and artist.

In the Shadow of Auschwitz

August 4, 2016

Focusing on the living at the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, Poland

Mid-Century Modern Master Builder

April 26, 2016

A production of the Ibsen play embraces an unorthodox space.

Coloring the Grey Zone

March 8, 2016

In Havana, an art world in transition.

Into the Closet

June 30, 2015

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, a traveling exhibit on the treatment of homosexuals under Nazism sheds light on a darker period.

The Left Front

February 25, 2015

Re-examining the radical art of the “Red Decade.”

Between Underground and Above

April 23, 2014

After a burst of Western interest in the mid-90s, and amid a complex system of government censorship, Vietnam’s contemporary art scene comes into its own.

Everything Grows

January 14, 2014

Inside Wangechi Mutu’s A Fantastic Journey.

Report from Berlin – Artists, Studios, and History

July 16, 2012

How Berlin's past shapes its present and future as an artist base.