The exhibition included large-scale translucent paleta sculptures embedded with handcuffs and firearms, an illuminated paleta cart bearing the phrase "U.S. Department of Stolen Land Security" and paintings juxtaposing Indigenous iconography, pop cultural imagery and references to contemporary border politics.
This exhibition's second round (whose opening reception takes place Thu/19, 5-8pm) is not only an aesthetic journey into one of our most powerful creators of U.S. revolutionary imagery, but might also serve as space to reflect and recharge in 2026. "Curators Rosalind McGary and Rio Yañez framed In Our Lifetime around Douglas's 12-point Political Artist Manifesto, a blueprint for anyone seeking to align creative practice with their revolutionary values," runs the show's description.
In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sutterlin script: Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.
One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he inspired many, including a young John Wilson, born in 1922 to Guyanese immigrants in the working-class neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Wright, who established himself in the literary world in the decade before Wilson emerged in art, profoundly impacted the modern artist - his words appear in the political prints and paintings Wilson would go on to make.
We also hope you had a lovely MLK Day! There's always a risk that even the most powerful legacies can be hollowed out into just a date on a calendar. But it's during these trying times that cultural institutions can help bring the urgency of that history back to life, revealing how it continues to shape and undercut our lives.
For two artists from NYC, the occasion means it is time to, once again, whip out their paintbrushes. Lesley Friedman Rosenthal and Brigitte Bentele of the Upper West Side in Manhattan mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, DC, with powerful and somewhat unsettling works of art. Their hope is to document a pivotal moment in American history and spark necessary conversations around politics and democracy.
Rhythm & Soul - Brazilian Contemporary Art (68projects) is a sweeping and deeply political panorama of Brazil's contemporary art scene, bringing together multiple generations of artists whose works reflect the country's beauty, contradictions, and ongoing struggles. From Afro-diasporic identity to Indigenous cosmologies, from gender and territory to resistance and joy, the exhibition reveals rhythm as a social force: a pulse that carries memory, protest, spirituality, and the tension between a fractured present and an imagined future.
IN 2025, fascism is rapidly being consolidated in America. Along with gutting the rule of law, the military occupation of cities, unbridled violence and cruelty, the support of Palestinian genocide, overt racism, the suppression of dissent, and the shameless substitution of propaganda for truth, this US fascism relies on nationalism (including the division of society into those who belong as Americans and those who do not) and unquestioning patriotism.
Roberts, who is forty-two and grew up in Miami, joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at nineteen and danced there for nearly two decades, until 2021. He began to make dances in 2016, and his early choreography-astonishingly original and powerful-was inextricably tied to his own dancing and the ways he could morph his majestic six-foot-four body as if it were molten.
At the sixth edition of the Aichi Triennale, which opened in Japan in September, wars and their effects loom large. The exhibition's title, A Time Between Ashes and Roses (until 30 November), comes from a line in a poem by the Syrian poet Adonis about the cycle of destruction and rebirth, observed through nature. It resonates throughout this year's event, where war, displacement, memory and the natural world are interwoven across venues in Aichi Prefecture, located to the west of Tokyo.
The tech bros want to go to Mars, so we're sending them there. There's room on the rocket for a few more souls so they're being joined by Trump, Netanyahu, Vance, Farage and Rowling - just some of the people who in recent years made life on Earth more difficult for us.
Corita Kent's artistic journey showcases a profound connection to both the natural world and contemporary society, evolving from intricate early serigraphs to politically engaged works.
