White Artist’s Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Draws ProtestsBY RANDY KENNEDY The open-coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955, served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement and have remained an open wound in American society since they were first published in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender at the urging of Till’s mother. Read More.
The Spring/Break Art Fair Is Filled with Awesome and Weird Creative WorksBY MAGGIE SHANNON Photographer Maggie Shannon visited curators and artists during preview night of the idiosyncratic art fair in Times Square. Read More.
This Artist Makes Heartbreaking Banners from Breakup TextsBY DAISY ALIOTO What if there was a way to visualize catharsis? That's what artist Peyton Fulford has done in her university town of Columbus, Georgia by turning breakup texts and notes on heartbreak into paper banners. Read More.
The Other Side: ARTIn this episode of The Other Side of Art, Auckland based illustrator and comic artist Toby Morris travels to Japan—the place where more people read comics than newspapers. Read More.
Exhilarating Bronx Show Looks Back at Two Decades of New York ProtestsBY SIDDHARTHA MITTER It appears today in "Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City, 1980–2000," an exhilarating show that gathers work from 38 documentary photographers who straddled the line between journalism and activism, heading out to shoot the latest incident, selling what they could (often to the Voice), and consigning the rest to their archives. Read More.
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Photographer Brandon McClain Captures Mundanity, Powerlessness, and Awful RecordsBY ANNIE ARMSTRONG "I want people to know that no matter where you are, no matter what town you're in, if you feel helpless where you are, there's beauty there." Read More.
Supreme-Branded Metro Cards Have NYC ShookBY JENNA AMATULLI No one in New York has ever been as excited to buy a MetroCard as the individuals who have been lining up to buy the Supreme-branded MetroCards. Read More.
Artist’s Unapologetic Vagina Paintings Are A Force Of Body PositivityBY PRISCILLA FRANK Jacqueline Secor painted her way to self-love, one vulva at a time. Warning: This article contains paintings of vulvae. Beautiful paintings of vulvae. Read More.
Fourth-Generation Harlem Artist Challenges What It Means To Be An AmericanBY PRISCILLA FRANK In his exhibition “Homegrown,” which recently closed at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Shrobe fuses his found materials into portraits that feel over-crowded and otherworldly. Read More.
14th Street Subway Passage Turned Into The "Love Tunnel" For Valentine's DayBY LAURA JUNE KIRSCH For the fourth consecutive year, photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya transformed this underground space into a beautiful interactive photography show called Love Tunnel NYC. Read More.
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