Graduate study at MICA (the Maryland Institute College of Art) offers a rigorous and concentrated experience for highly motivated artists and designers seeking to develop a strong personal vision and voice, disciplined studio practice, and the skills and connections for professional success.
November 5, 2015
A Reason to Headbang: Finland Makes National Emojis
The country has developed more than 30 emojis that function as advertisements for all the things that make Finland unique.
Journeying Through Landscapes Without Memory
BRIGHTON, UK — Shona Illingworth demonstrates truths about the way we remember — and, more crucially, the way we forget.
Here Comes the Sun in NASA’s New Mind-Blowing Footage
Now, thanks to NASA, you can stare at the sun for as long as you like.
The Beat Artist Who Rescued Paper Planes from the Streets of NYC
Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith picked up every paper airplane he saw on the streets of Manhattan from 1961 to 1983.
Interactive Comic Commemorates the Tragic Story of the Vietnamese “Boat People”
For the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, artist Matt Huynh — the son of Vietnamese boat people — adapted the award-winning story “The Boat” into an interactive comic.
Hundreds of Indian Artists Condemn Government Indifference to Far-Right Violence
NEW DELHI — On October 27 the Indian news site Scroll published a letter signed by over 300 artists that expresses support for the more than 40 writers who have returned their state awards over the past month as a form of protest against the increasingly intolerant environment in India for minorities and cultural producers.
Priestesses at Play: Lynda Benglis at Storm King
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY — This year, among the di Suveros, the Serras, and other Modernist guardians, the autumn leaves adorn Lynda Benglis’s large works in cast metal and polyurethane.
Remembering Architecture Through Fragments and Impressions
Buildings, in New York City especially, are so overwhelmingly big that they can sometimes seem to occupy our space and not the other way around.
Robert Morris’s Spectral Shrouds
Robert Morris has comported himself for decades as the least minimal of the original minimalists.
The Art of Anxiety and Anticipation from the Backyards of Cold War Superpowers
As Cold War politics began to heat up along the peripheries of US and Soviet control, aesthetic preoccupations slowly started to give way to explicit engagement with the prevailing orders of power.