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 tragic aftermath of World War I, Magritte turned his back on Academic history painting. Instead, he shows us life’s ambiguities, depicted in witty and thought-provoking ways.
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Miriam Schapiro: Feminism in pieces
Inspired by the Women’s Movement, Miriam Schapiro invented “femmage”—a boundary-shattering combination of paint and fabric that elevates the intimate stories of women.
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Jean Dubuffet’s stranger things
After WWII, French artist Jean 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
One of the first visual artists to confront the chasm between the colonizer and the colonized, Saar creates haunting works of art that seduce us into thinking deeply about race.
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Why isn’t Norman Lewis famous?
The first American art movement to achieve global recognition promised limitless artistic freedom. But limitless for whom? How many Black Abstract Expressionists can you name?
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George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street
The lone tenement beneath New York’s Queensboro Bridge looks out of place. Is it real? Or is it an architectural ghost, haunting us with memories of a demolished neighborhood?