From the moment Pablo Picasso finished painting Guernica in 1937 for the World’s Fair as a response to the German and Italian bombing of Gernika, the over-25-foot canvas has functioned as both an artwork and an argument.
Interviews & Essays
Riding the waves of history and biography, Annette Hur gives shape to passion, disillusion, longing, fear, and self-realization. Bridging her native South Korea and her adopted hometown of New York, she has embarked on a watery route from shore to shore, holding the extremities apart and in place, secured by an unbreakable psychological magnetism and the gravitational pull of the moon.
The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and political movement that redefined Blackness in the United States as an act of liberation from post-antebellum discrimination and stereotypes, evidenced by Jim Crow laws and an abundance of blackface on-screen. Within this movement, Harlem in New York City served as the epicenter of Black philosophy, art, and music from the mid-1920s through the 1930s.
From Michelangelo's marble masterpiece to equally amazing but lesser-known works, here are some of the most fascinating representations of David in Renaissance and Baroque arts
I’d always been interested in Northern European painting, the earliest practitioners like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and all the supernumeraries that circulated around the Eyckian solar system—painting and sculpture from the Netherlands and Germany between 1330 to 1520 or so. As a painter myself during college and after, I had a great interest in the technical underpinnings as well as the subject matter.
Phong H. Bui is a lot of people. He is co-founder, publisher, and artistic director of The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly journal that features interviews, museum and gallery shows, book-music-dance-theater-film reviews, and architecture, poetry, fiction, plus more in the weekly publication on their website.
In the spirit of the English poet Alexander Pope, art springs eternal, much like hope. Many artists have recognized the uplifting power of spring, particularly in times of societal and political upheaval. These ten artworks remind us that spring always follows winter's dark days of snow and ice.
If you’ve ever attempted to take a photo of a work of art inside a museum, you’ll know that it isn’t always easy. How do you avoid the glare of a glazed painting? Will the power of an installation translate in your Instagram feed? And should you attempt to edit out the crowds standing around the object in question?
Multimedia artist Daniel Arsham (b. 1980) creates reality-bending pieces across multiple genres, melding art, architecture, and performance.
Acclaimed American sculptor, activist, and arts educator Augusta Savage (1892—1962) was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance who fought for equal rights for African American artists and inspired future generations as a teacher.
