Author name: Connie Alvarez

Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and creatures seem abundant in galleries this month. While Sanam Khatibi’s uncanny scenes feel like memento mori transplanted to a land between life and death and Joy Curtis’s strange anatomies reimagine life as we know it,

Hours before mass arrests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) late last night, April 30, a march organized by the Palestinian-led activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) made stops at New York University (NYU), the New School, and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where students are making history as they

Handala was created in 1969 by the late Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali. (image via Wikimedia Commons) Students who camped out on Columbia University lawns for the last two weeks, demanding financial transparency and divestments from Israeli military interests, broke into Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, smashing the windows of the academic hall and zip-tying and

LOS ANGELES — Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Tuesday night, April 30, as counter-protesters attacked pro-Palestine student activists who occupied the campus. Shortly before midnight, agitators wielding sticks descended on the encampment, setting off fireworks and using pepper spray as they attempted to dismantle the barricades surrounding the camp.

Fragile scrolls, royal portraits, various pottery and ceramics, and a 19th-century hand-drawn map were among 22 artifacts that had been missing from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa since they were looted following the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yesterday, April 30, after almost 80 years, the stolen artifacts were officially repatriated to their homeland in a

Keith and Brooke Shields, December 13, 1984 (image courtesy Keith Haring Foundation Collection) Keith Haring was born in a White, working-class town in Eastern Pennsylvania. After briefly attending a commercial art school in Pittsburgh, he studied semiotics at the School of the Visual Arts in Manhattan in 1978. His timing was impeccable, for he arrived

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Xiyadie, “Missing” (2007), papercut on colored Xuan paper, 10 3/5 x 10 3/5 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery) HONG KONG — Beauty, desire, metamorphosis — the symbolism of the butterfly was not lost on the Chinese artist Xiyadie when he chose “Siberian Butterfly” as his pseudonym. At Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery,