Visual arts

Art May Hold the Key to Reclaiming Focus in a Hyper-Accelerated World

It has become increasingly difficult to escape the constant visual clutter of modern society, but artist Gail Wegodsky believes the visual arts offer a refuge anyone can access.

By Gail Wegodsky

Substack Has Become a Refuge for Journalists. Will Visual Artists Soon Follow Suit?

Amidst a pandemic recession, artists without institutional support are being forced to get, well, creative. Can a newsletter help?

By Helen Holmes

An Escape to Paul Cadmus and H.D.’s Beautiful Queer Beach

In the case of both the poet and the artist, it is this thrusting of their own complex, “problematic” (for their times) personhood out into the elements that contributes most forcefully to their modernity. Their complexity.

By Mike McClelland

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Is Still Facing Development Woes

By Helen Holmes

Fall Arts: Dean Levin and the Rise of the Bro Artists

By Nate Freeman

M.I.A. Album Release Party with Soho House

By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay

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