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Online • Sep 03, 2026
Graceful Ghosts: Across Two Decades, Rania Matar Photographs Lebanon Through War and Displacement
Review by Christian Jones

Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026
ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One
News by Kim Córdova

Online • Aug 31, 2026
Mounting Pressure: Lucy Raven Confronts Industrial Force at the ICA Watershed
Review by Lynne Cooney

Issue 16 • Aug 25, 2026
Shaping Sanctuary: In Conversation with Yinka Shonibare
Interview by J. Yolande Daniels

Online • Aug 18, 2026
“Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea” Shows How Three Midcentury Greats Were Shaped by the Shore and One Another
Review by David Curcio

Issue 16 • Aug 18, 2026
Where Bodies Gather: In Conversation with Benjamin Spalding
Interview by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Online • Aug 04, 2026
Morphologies of Emergence: In Conversation with Martha Poggioli
Interview by Isabella Cilia

Online • Aug 04, 2026
In “On an Overgrown Path,” Matt Saunders Traverses the Space Between Mediums
Quick Bit by John A. Tyson

Online • Jul 28, 2026
Sal Lopes’s “Living with AIDS” Returns to the Neighborhood He Documented Thirty Years Prior
Quick Bit by Melanie Litwin

Issue 16 • Jul 21, 2026
Threads of Continuity at the Saunderstown Weaving School
Feature by Yutong Shi

Online • Jul 21, 2026
The Work of Art: “Performing Conditions” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Review by Dina Ramadan

Online • Jul 14, 2026
Felicia Megginson’s Self-Portraits Recast Black Presence in Nature
Review by Gabrielle Walker

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SubscribeOnline • Sep 03, 2026
Graceful Ghosts: Across Two Decades, Rania Matar Photographs Lebanon Through War and Displacement
More than forty photographs at RKG x Sea-Dar span nearly two decades of Matar’s practice, placing earlier documentary work alongside the hauntingly surreal portraits of her Where Do I Go? series.
Review by Christian Jones
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Online • Aug 31, 2026
Mounting Pressure: Lucy Raven Confronts Industrial Force at the ICA Watershed
Review by Lynne Cooney

Issue 16 • Aug 18, 2026
Where Bodies Gather: In Conversation with Benjamin Spalding
Interview by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark
Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026
ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One
From the PolicyLink Summit’s arts and culture “caucus” to a federal hearing over Trump’s threatened Kennedy Center demolition, ArtWonk reports from DC. Plus, a Kehinde Wiley piece is removed from a US embassy, Mexico may lose a trove of Frida Kahlo pieces, and more.
News by Kim Córdova
Civic Culture • Aug 20, 2026
ArtWonk: Is Art Media Finally Getting a Seat at the Journalism Table?
BAR hit the road on the 2026 journalism conference circuit, attending convenings hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Momus, and the Knight Foundation. There, we found cautious signs that arts journalism and its infrastructure may finally be entering broader conversations about the future of media.
News by Kim Córdova