The protests of the summer of 2020 triggered a reckoning in the art world that extended in many directions but returned insistently to the question of Black artists’ visibility in American museums and galleries. A year later, the picture is markedly improved. In fact, Black artists are visible as never before: Simone Leigh was chosen […]

Movie theaters are back! Sort of. Despite the full reopening of most major chains, recent visits to a couple of Washington, D.C.-area theaters, albeit on weekday evenings, found few customers, and what the New York Times called, in its report from the multiplex, an air of “zombie-mall weirdness.” (Brains, we want brains.) This summer is […]

If art acts as a reflection of how someone experiences the world, what happens when an artist is no longer out there, taking it all in? As life in the pandemic increasingly moved to the internet, how did the art produced evolve to reflect the shift? Such questions have floated around creative spaces over the […]

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