Category: Social and Political Struggles
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María Izquierdo remembers it all
Meet the indomitable artist whose deeply personal paintings quietly challenged Mexico’s loud, male-dominated art scene with imagination and humor.
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René Magritte’s unthinkable thoughts
In the aftermath of World War I, Magritte turned his back on academic history painting. Instead, he portrays life’s ambiguities in witty, thought-provoking ways.
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Miriam Schapiro: Feminism in pieces
Inspired by the Women’s Movement, Miriam Schapiro invented “femmage”—a daring combination of paint and fabric that amplifies the personal stories of women.
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Jean Dubuffet’s stranger things
After WWII, Dubuffet mixed paint with whatever he could scrounge up: string, gravel, shards of glass. “Art should make us laugh a little and fear a little,” he said.
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Artist Betye Saar tells ghost stories
As one of the first artists to confront the chasm between the colonizer and the colonized, Saar created haunting works that seduce us into thinking deeply about race.
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Why isn’t Norman Lewis famous?
Abstract Expressionism—America’s first global art movement—promised limitless artistic freedom. But for whom? How many Black Abstract Expressionists can you name?
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George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street
The lone tenement beneath the new Queensboro Bridge looks out of place. Is it real? Or is it an architectural ghost, haunting us with memories of homes that were razed?