A Mural Reimagines the History of a 19th-Century Tongan Club
Still from Walking Backwards into the Future (courtesy Anna Weinreich) The 19th-century clubs from Tonga
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Ron English Plans to Whitewash a $730,000 Banksy, and then Sell It
Banksy’s “Slave Labour (Bunting Boy)” mural as it appeared in May 2012 (via Wikimedia Commons) American
How Mexican and Chincanx Activism Flourished in 20th-Century Los Angeles
Installation view, Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology at Vincent Price Art Museum (all photos
A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge
One in a trio of Stephanie Syjuco’s tiny sets, Applicant Photos (Migrants), detail view. Part
Activism Takes Center Stage in Sophia Dawson’s Art
Sophia Dawson holding a painting of her son, Lower East Side, Manhattan (all images ©
Larry Fink Illuminates the Drama of Boxing
Larry Fink, “Champs Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania” (February 1993), promised gift of the Tony Podesta Collection, Washington
Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Mario Sironi, “Composizione con elica (Composition with Propeller)” (1919), tempera and collage on board, 29
Book Excerpt: Hanging Out in the Village with the ‘Ninth Street Women’
Mary Gabriel’s comprehensive book shines a long-overdue light on five female painters in the abstract
The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’
Video by The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) Reading “Leda and The Swan,” the sonnet by William
Elmgreen & Dragset: ‘Making art is a headache. Only 2.5% of it is fun’
Tim Jonze / From gay urinals to a Prada store in the Texas desert, the
Mystery solved? Identity of Courbet’s 19th-century nude revealed
Experts say they are 99% sure model who posed for L’Origine du monde was ballet
A Big Party Kicks off Brooklyn Museum’s Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Wadsworth A. Jarrell, “Revolutionary (Angela Davis)” (1971), acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 64 x