Headline Magazine
April 30, 2026
Interviews
Interviews
Art Beyond Sight: A Conversation with Clarke Reynolds

Clarke Reynolds (Mr. Dot) talks with the Art Review about interactive art, changing the narrative around blindness, and creating a world where art is more accessible for all.

The Nationalistic Novelty of a Napoleonic Nuptial: The Cults of the Republican Motherhood and Fatherhood in the "Portrait of Antoine-Georges-François de Chabaud-Latour and His Family"

Brady deconstructs Barbier-Walbonne’s presentation of the Cults of the Republican Motherhood and Fatherhood in his seminal portrait in the RISD Museum, examining how the artist both adheres to and challenges the Imperial ideals of the Salon of 1806.

From Roots to Rituals: Brewing Bonds of Healing in Mate Cup with Bombilla

In the RISD Museum’s “Trading Earth” exhibit (April 9, 2022 - August 3, 2025), a silver vessel stands quietly in the Tea Cabinet. What is this object and whose story does it carry? Tracing the history of the 'mate con bombilla', a traditional yerba mate vessel in Argentina, reveals a far more entangled past, one shaped by trade, colonial exchange, and the global circulation of both materials and meaning.

April 29, 2026
Opinions
Opinions
The Pleasures of Dagobert: Reflecting on a work by Surrealist Medievalist Leonora Carrington

Examining the Boschian and elemental influences of Leonora Carrington’s practice.

April 29, 2026
Features
Features
Audrey Flack’s Attachment to Representation, Iconography, and Narrative Painting: From the New York School to the 2024 Art World

Beginning her career surrounded by Abstract Expressionists, artist Audrey Flack grappled with her impulse toward Baroque-inspired, illusionistic, and iconographic work for decades. After pioneering an often disregarded sentimental dimension of Photorealism within a male-dominated 1970s art world, the contemporary art world at last fully embraced her final body of work before her death in 2024.

April 29, 2026
Features
Features
Medium and Meaning: Recontextualizing the Classical Figure in Blek le Rat’s "Venus Mexico"

How important is medium for meaning? Can we even distinguish the two? Blek le Rats’ "Venus in Mexico" forces us to consider how meaning intertwines with medium.