Events
A History of Self-Taught African American Artists
Curator Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins discusses the history and lineage of self-taught African American artists, from slavery to the present day.
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A Residency Invites Artists to Work with Scientists Who Design Art Materials
Winsor & Newton has returned to its roots through the Griffin programs, where artists and scientists benefit from each other’s expertise and perspective.
Art
Urs Fischer and Gagosian Bank on a Big Pop-Up Show on Fifth Avenue
The artist’s massive aluminum sculpture “Things” commands a former bank space in Midtown Manhattan.
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Olafur Eliasson Partners with IKEA to Spark Affordable Solar Energy Products
A new partnership is slated to bring affordable energy and light to IKEA consumers around the world.
Art
LA Artists Take Us from the Colonial Past to the Interstellar Future
Winners of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship highlight contested histories and utopian pasts in their group show.
Art
Five Artists Explore the Aesthetics of Mourning
An exhibition of video work forces different styles of grieving into one small space.
Protest Performance Pressures Royal Shakespeare Company to End BP Sponsorship
Members of BP or not BP? and other collectives staged the “Fossil Free Mischief Festival” in front and in the lobby of the RSC’s Stratford-upon-Avon theater.
Articles
A Critical Piece of Advice Robert De Niro, Sr. Gave Me About Art
Robert De Niro senior’s sage advice, which he gave me in the late 1970s, has stayed with me, although I remember finding it intensely challenging when first offered.
In Brief
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Return to the Louvre in New Music Video, Picking the Greatest Hits
But the pop music royals stick to the museum’s main attractions in “Apeshit.”
Comics
Figuring Out an Artist’s Wants and Needs
What happens when they don’t overlap?
Curators Test Ties Between Science, Art, and The Colonial Imagination
An ongoing investigation into the impact of 19th century botanical adventurers on culture shapes questions posed in an exhibition in a now defunct Veterinarian College.
Essays
The Mississippi Museum of Art Confronts the State’s Painful History
The institution recently opened its revamped permanent collection display, which presents a journey through the state’s charged history sprinkled with salient contemporary art.