by October Gallery
McDonald’s USA rolled out its largest campaign in 16 years targeting African American consumers on Friday. The new campaign, titled “Black & Positively Golden,” aims to uplift black communities and…
Dice, 9th–10th century, excavated from Iran. COURTESY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Times “In a move museum leadership is calling unprecedented, the Art Institute of Chicago has postponed a major…
Lyle Ashton Harris photographed at his studio in New York City, January 2019. ALEX LOCKETT The video opens in a dimly lit bedroom. A voice offscreen begins to speak. “Sometimes,…
Meredith Monk at Big Ears. ELI JOHNSON Lonnie Holley, the Alabama-born sculptor/musician, commanded the stage of a gutted warehouse turned concert venue in the Old Town district of Knoxville, Tennessee,…
Shaun Krupa during his performance last week at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn. ANNA GUSTAVI Last Wednesday, I watched a man rub his face and body into a pile of dirt.…
At the Palms, the demon. COURTESY PALMS CASINO AND RESORT Fans of Damien Hirst, lovers of pools, and habitués of Las Vegas: rejoice. Almost exactly two years after it made…
Hirst’s Warrior and the Bear (2015). COURTESY PALMS What Makes A Space Christopher Knight addresses the news that the new plans for LACMA’s redesign may actually shrink the museum’s size…
Christo, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris – Place de l’Etoile – Charles de Gaulle), 2019. ©2019 CHRISTO/ANDRÉ GROSSMAN Christo has made headlines for decades for surrounding or wrapping…
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend will headline the House Democrats’ annual retreat. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Singer John Legend and model wife Chrissy Teigen are set to headline the House Democratic Caucus…
Vice President Joe Biden re-enacts administering the Senate oath to Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, D-Mass. Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Joining him, from left are. Secretary…