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The Israeli Filmmakers Who Shoot and Cry
Michal Weits’s Blue Box, in which she grapples with her great-grandfather’s role in the mass displacement of Palestinians, doesn’t go quite far enough.
Academy Museum Workers Ratify First Union Contract
The news came just as the Hollywood screenwriters’ guild reached a strike-ending deal with studios.
National Portrait Gallery Announces the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
The first prize winner will receive $25,000 and a commission to portray a remarkable living American for the Smithsonian museum’s collection.
DC’s National Cathedral Unveils Kerry James Marshall Stained-Glass Windows
Titled Now and Forever, the new designs honor the ongoing pursuit for racial equality in a country built on systemic oppression.
On Labor and Race in Great Depression America
Art for the Millions at the Met Museum foregrounds the perspectives of women and people of color in the 1930s in the wake of industrialized labor.
VCUarts to Break Ground on CoStar Center for Arts and Innovation
The 213,000-square-foot complex in Richmond, Virginia, will be a hub for multidisciplinary research and collaboration and a resource for the community.
The Poetry of Place in Teresa Baker’s Art
Baker’s art exudes the deep and spiritual connection to nature that she has gained from her Mandan/Hidatsa family.
The “LA Fingers” Symbol Gets a Tribute in Bronze
The gesture popularized by Estevan Oriol’s iconic 1995 photo inspired two sculptures by Glenn Kaino to be installed on either end of the new 6th Street bridge.
Hito Steyerl to Deliver 2023 Wolgin Lecture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
The moving image artist will discuss her investigative practice and the implications of digital image proliferation, taking place via livestream and in Philadelphia.
When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions’ Walls
The Met’s staff art exhibition made headlines when it opened to the public last year. As it turns out, these shows are anything but rare.
What is This? Artwork for Ants?
“Our culture is far richer with the inclusion of other life forms,” says Catherine Chalmers, an artist who collaborates with a collective of wild ants to create tiny, Abstract Expressionist “Antworks.”