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Art

Abel Alejandre’s Chicano Cosmologies

A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”

Film

Director Nicole Newnham chronicles the rise, fall, and disappearance of the iconic feminist sexologist.

In his final book, art historian B.N. Goswamy sketches a portrait of the Indian cat, drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim fables.

Art

Dennis’s exaggerated scenarios compel non-Indigenous viewers to confront racial dynamics that many people in the images choose not to see.

Art

At the center of the acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker’s practice is her effort to counter White, colonialist versions of history.

Shakers mingle in this multimedia production at the New York Choral Society.

Art

A century after his death, the Meadows Museum offers a rare opportunity to experience 26 of the artist’s luminous paintings of Spanish landscapes.

Art

You’s paintings exude a sense of sweet, childlike wonder, where each moment is filled with possibility.

Art

All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.

Art

I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.

Art

Abraham Ángel embodied a new type of homegrown Mexican artist who rejected past European traditions in favor of local influences like arte popular.

Art

Is the Royal Academy’s Marina Abramović retrospective spirituality or its monetization? You toss the coin.