Visual Arts

The Art of Reggie Burrows Hodges

The painter equates blackness not only with depth of field, but depth of person.

March 22, 2021

Young and in Love

Salman Toor’s absorbing show at the Whitney depicts the pleasures, tensions, and small moments of gay life.

April 8, 2021 issue

Examining the American War Machine from Inside and Out

The artist and writer discuss their experience as Vietnamese refugees and how it has influenced their work.

March 6, 2021

A Vermeer for the IRA

Rose Dugdale, famous for a 1974 art heist, would probably rather be remembered as a heroine of Irish republicanism.

March 11, 2021 issue

Decolonizing the Museum

“We thought when we began that the performance would be understood as a parody,” says the interdisciplinary artist and writer.

February 6, 2021

Kamoinge’s Collective Vision

Three writer-photographers discuss the legacy and continuity of the photography workshop founded during the Black Arts Movement’s heyday.

February 6, 2021

‘The Tools We Have’: A Photo History of African Women

A new book offers a striking visual history of African women from 1870 to 1970.

January 23, 2021

‘God, Guns, & Trump’: Anatomy of the Crowd

What the body language of Trump supporters tells us about America’s divided future.

January 22, 2021

‘My Eyes Are Infamously Greedy’

Japan’s energetic culture of the photobook, from 1912 to today.

February 11, 2021 issue

A World Without Us: Josef Koudelka’s ‘Ruins’

These photographs of ancient sites, taken around the Mediterranean between 1991 and 2015, are particularly apt in our time of isolation and upheaval.

January 16, 2021