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The Art That Could Decorate Donald Trump’s Wall
What would you do with a 1,000-mile long concrete canvas? The question came to me on Jan. 25, when Donald Trump signed a directive to begin immediate construction on a wall spanning the US-Mexico...
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The de Wolfe Questionnaire: Caitlin Strokosch
Caitlin Strokosch at Mardi Gras Caitlin Strokosch is the President & CEO of National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network, a national artist support organization based in New Orleans. She...
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Yesterday’s Xenophobia Today: Japanese Internment & Muslim Bans
President Franklin Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese pilots bombed Pearl Harbor a day that will “live in infamy.” Feb. 19, 1942, marks another infamous moment. On that date Roosevelt...
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Now Hiring: Editors, Contributors for The Clyde Fitch Report
What Is This Gig?: The Clyde Fitch Report is the only site in American journalism specifically covering the intersection of arts and politics. We publish articles, a podcast and we are starting to...
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Three British Princesses Champion the Enlightenment
Women’s History Month in March always brings a slew of exhibitions spotlighting women who have languished in the shadows. A sumptuous show at the Yale Center for British Art highlights the cultural...
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6 Women Working in the Arts: A Springtime Selection
It’s spring (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere)! So many new things going and growing in the world. Are you starting a 100 Days Project? I think mine will be reading and writing about gender...
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Not Cool: Justin Guariglia Photographs Arctic Meltdown
Flying aboard a military transport plane to take photographs of Greenland’s glaciers from 40,000 feet, Justin Brice Guariglia aimed to transcend his already-successful career as a photojournalist....
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“Black Radical Women” Revolutionize Art at Brooklyn Museum
Is Faith Ringgold the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century? That’s rhetorical—ranking artists like that is nearly always, if not actually always, silly. The question, though, is...
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Mental Health Therapy Needs Arts as Process and Product
Yet again, the disparity between women and men in the arts rears its ugly head when trying to discuss creativity and mental health. Women are disproportionately diagnosed with depression, anxiety and...
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Habitat 67 Turns 50: Safdie Talks Ethical Architecture
Architect Moshe Safdie remembers the mid-1960s, when he was designing Habitat 67 — the revolutionary pavilion for Canada’s Expo 67 in Montreal, as a time of enormous optimism. As he said in a recent...
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Reminds Us How to Empathize
Jason Farago of The New York Times really does not like the current show of paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the New Museum, “Under-Song for a Cipher;” however, I’m not quite sure why and, it...
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The NoMAA Uptown Arts Stroll Achieves Its Quinceañero
If it sounded like a party was happening inside the recently landmarked United Palace Theater back on the evening of May 31, the truth of the matter was not far off. Members of the Northern Manhattan...
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Michael Stewart Transforms Dark Emotion into Political Art
Michael Stewart works in several media, making beautiful things using paint, collage, ink, clay and other materials artists use. Moons ago, Stewart went to Wittenberg University in Ohio with the...
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Ai Weiwei Puts You under Surveillance at the Armory
“Political art is boring, but art that is not political is also boring,” according to the Swiss architect Jacques Herzog, speaking at a recent panel discussion about the installation Hansel and Gretel...
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American Flag Art Has Better Things To Be Than Patriotic
When the American flag makes it into the news, the reason is usually inane, petty and embarrassing. For example, there was that time an adult questioned whether then-candidate Obama “believe[d] in the...
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No Steamy Beach Books, Only Parenting and Parity
Hello, summer! The time of year when reading is actually expected! No one looks at me askance as I sit at the pool with a book (although I did get a funny look at the baseball game when I put down a...
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Qatar Dispute Plays Out at Ancient Pyramids of Sudan
Though it is relatively little known to the outside world, Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. Many of the African nation’s 200 pyramids — especially the best-restored ones — lie in the ruined city of...
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In Dubai, Architect Rem Koolhaas Sees Art in Concrete
The rulers of Dubai have carefully planned the glitz and glamour that the entrepôt is known for today. From the world’s largest tower and artificial islands already in existence to robot cops and a...
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“After Andy”: When a Former London “It” Girl Went Warhol
Summer 2017 may be starting to wind down, but there’s still time for some escapist reading on the beach towel. You may find the pages of Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni’s After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land...
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I’m an Artist: Is Home Sweet Home Just a Dream For Me?
I was lucky to be born in a family with two loving parents and my older brother. My father was a geologist, my mother a language teacher. I grew up in a world of explorations and dreams, surrounded by...
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