SIXTY YEARS AGO, Bayard Rustin stood on the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., hoping after a short two months of intense organizing that crowds of demonstrators would come to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and…
The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Suzanne Jackson’s son, an actor and film producer named Rafiki Smith, died. He had suffered a heart attack earlier in the year, but he had still been running around Savannah, Georgia, where he…
The artist collective and self-described public secret society New Red Order is launching The World’s UnFair, an immersive spectacle and its largest public project yet. The exhibition, a project with non-profit public arts organisation Creative Time, is being held in an…
As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. Right now in Queens, New York, massive sculptures made from detritus of the sea have alit, standing tall and colorful like characters from…
At the Swiss Institute, New York, Jac Leirner’s sculptures and installations of discarded objects suggest the unseen exchanges of everyday life Rooted in the meticulous collection and reappropriation of discarded objects, Jac Leirner’s practice traces the unseen contours of the…
In his sculptures, Lonnie Holley utilizes terraneous materials—sand, stone, iron, the detritus buried beneath them—but remains steadily inspired by water. In “I Am a Part of the Wonder,” a song on his recent album Oh Me Oh My, Holley sings about “the wonders…
With a show in Manhattan, he says he inherited from his Indigenous forebears “inventive consciousness.” By Jonathan GriffinThe writer is an art critic based in Los Angeles. The painter Richard Mayhew, who recently celebrated his 99th birthday, has lived through…
When smoke from wildfires in Canada turned the New York City air orange last week, architect Andrés Jaque noted an eerie parallel between the smoky sky and an installation that he premiered at the latest Venice Design Biennale. Titled XHOLOBENI…
ATTENDING ART SCHOOL in Jamaica, Ebony G. Patterson made a “classically inclined” painting that she didn’t love. Her undergraduate professor recognized that she was struggling and asked her why she was pursuing the medium in that style. “Ebony, is…
Larry Stanton’s paintings are a touching tribute to a community of friends and artists gone long before their time. In the years before the Stonewall Uprising, New York’s LGBTQ scene was ensconced underground, flourishing in secret sanctuaries like the Fire Island Pines. It was here,…
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