Abad’s signature format was trapunto, a style of large-scale quilt. Despite the playfulness of their textures and coloring, Abad’s versions often tackled dense, complicated intersectionalities, from her identity as an …
Thoughts, prayers and No Fear Shakespeares for X’s bigoted troll community today, who—mere days after finding out that Romeo and Juliet is neither based in fact nor written by Baz …
The pioneering visual artist Faith Ringgold, whose body of work spanned paintings, sculptures, performance art, and widely celebrated story quilts, died this week at 93. Throughout her career, Ringgold was …
Vogue: Did the paintings themselves figure into your research for the role? Eden Espinosa: The [composition] of them—finding that hard and soft, because she has that, too, in my mind. …
Next up are two selections from Mikki Ferrill’s decade-long documentation of The Garage, an improvised music club that popped up in a Chicago parking garage every Sunday afternoon, when it …
In the early 1970s, the artist Audrey Flack traveled to the Basílica de la Macarena in Seville, Spain, to see a carved-wood statue called Macarena Esperanza, a polychrome depiction of …
After the 2023 Tony Awards proved that an unscripted award show, while definitely unideal, can actually kind of work if the host is charismatic enough (and a professional dancer), we’re …
Richard Serra, the artist who reinvented the world’s conception of large-scale sculpture, died from pneumonia at his home in Long Island, New York, on Tuesday. Much has been written about …
And then there are the still lives—oh, those still lives! With their witty, jarring, and wholly original arrangements of the organic and the inanimate, they are as masterly and timeless …
As London slowly emerges from winter, a bevy of stars—from Hollywood stalwarts to theater veterans and emerging talents—are lining up to storm the West End stage. They’re set to reimagine …