From Overtown to Opa-locka, these Art Week events celebrate Black art, culture

Art revelers can also celebrate the richness of African art at Opa-locka’s The Art of Transformation, which will feature six ...

These two women changed the world, one fashionable shockwave at a time

Life would have been so much duller without Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo. A new exhibition gives thanks.

Meet Afro-Caribbean Portraitist Kandy G. Lopez, the Barkley L. Hendricks of Fiber Art

I first encountered Kandy G. Lopez’s larger-than-life fiber paintings at ACA Galleries’ booth at the 2024 Armory Show. As New York City’s Javits Center is not exactly known for its charming and ...

Her Face Is on a Nigerian Bank Note. But Her Work Is Rarely Seen.

A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.
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Marina Abramovic’s Erotic Epic Spreads Wide (and Displays the Limits of) the Artist’s Psyche

Hundreds of attendees peeled off before the night was over, despite Abramovic doing her best ahead of time to assure the ...
Flickering Myth

The Erotic Horror Renaissance of the 1990s: Where Cinemax Met Creature Features

Adam Page on the erotic horror renaissance of the 90s… Look, sitting here in front of this keyboard, I can’t pretend it ...