Comprising little-known works by the Chilean-born artist, The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey highlights Downey’s role as an educator, with a decided emphasis on his thinking regarding architecture and ecological sustainability.

Contemporary African art is currently making a historic impact on contemporary art and culture. How did we get to this point, and what will the long-term effect be?

In Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, one of the first scholarly works on the subject to be translated into English, cultural theorist Hiroki Azuma associated the appearance of Japan’s otaku communities—groups of like-minded pop culture fans—with the postmodern breakdown of societal grand narratives.

Long lauded a “country of immigrants”, America persists as a nation where strivers the world over can come to make themselves internationally known in their field. This holds true in the visual arts as well, and now there is a gallery in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood that focuses specifically on showcasing immigrant artists who live and work in the US.

There’s a long-running witticism in the New York art world that a valuable side-benefit of Miami Basel Art Week is actually seeing and networking with all your New York peers who get lost in the vertiginous crush of things that sidetrack you in day-to-day life as a New Yorker.

In this moment of political turmoil, artists have taken on the responsibility to continue fighting back against inequality through exhibition and protest.