
This is Not a Watermelon: A Brooklyn-Palestine Solidarity Event in Dialogue with Protest Art
‘Making sure we remember every possible way — through education, through music, through dance, through art — is a part of resistance.’
As City budget negotiations commence tomorrow, all departments are on the chopping block except the NYPD, with many community programs at risk of being cut.
A New Exhibit Brings to Life the History of Racism and Resistance in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History opens its outdoor Brooklyn Resists exhibit tomorrow on Juneteenth. “We realized during COVID that…
Black Lives Matter Inspires the Whitney
What a way to go. For his 2003 video “Self-Portrait Piñata,” artist Dave McKenzie cast his image as a…
Alice Neel: Painting People Left Out of the Picture
In a world that viewed portrait painting as an affectation of the rich, Alice Neel (1900-1984) believed all people…
New Exhibit Takes Aim at Gun Culture and Its Pathologies
As mass shootings become “normal” again from Atlanta to Boulder, Karen M. Gutfreund invites to explore the toxic culture that feeds our gun obsession.
Iraqi and American Art Meet at MoMA
They said it would keep us safe. They said it would keep us strong. They said it was proper…
Sewing Dissent with Textile Artist Diana Weymar
The words, stitched in black, glare out from the center of a handkerchief, decorated with a motif of pink…
After An Uprising: New Exhibition Highlights Queer Art Post-Stonewall
“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,” now showing at the Brooklyn Museum, seems like a direct…