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Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for December 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
Sculpture Space Opens Applications for 2023 Artist Residencies
Located in a historic industrial manufacturing facility in Utica, New York, this sculpture-centric program is accepting applications through January 15, 2022.
Self-Portrait as Future
When looking at images from the golden age of Sudanese photography, I was reminded to listen as much as look.
The Poetics of an Invisible Market
“I’m making a financial instrument as an artwork. That’s the new reality.” She stares unwavering into the distance. “What is existence on the blockchain? Does an NFT exist?”
Vermont College of Fine Arts’s MFA in Graphic Design Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
In 2011, VCFA created the first low-residency master’s in graphic design. Today, this student-centered, inquiry-based program is a leader in design education.
New Book Brings Virginia Woolf’s Little-Known Art Criticism To Light
Oh, to Be a Painter! collects nine of Woolf’s published art reviews, catalogue essays, and experimental texts from 1920 to 1936.
A Wealth of Never-Before-Seen Footage is Restored for The Beatles: Get Back
Casual and obsessive fans of the band alike will appreciate the sheer volume of new material in Peter Jackson’s epic-length docuseries.
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art Presents Beyond Intention
This exhibition in Great Falls, Montana addresses the concept of intention in contemporary fiber art and its complex relationship with the history of women’s art as craft.
Gee’s Bend Quilts, Purvis Young Works, and More Enter Five University Collections
Thirty artworks entered the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Hampton University Museum.
Turkey Faces Suspension From Council of Europe if Osman Kavala Is Not Freed
Amnesty International urged the council to begin infringement proceedings against Turkey for its arbitrary detainment of the arts philanthropist.
Catherine the Great’s Pro-Vaccination Letter Heads to Auction
The sovereign led a mass vaccination campaign against smallpox that laid the groundwork for over two million Russians to be inoculated against the deadly disease
“Museum goers have become their own artists without anyone’s help.”
I have decided to become a neurosurgeon sans anyone’s help…or an astronaut, whichever requires the least work but can nevertheless be the source of endless ‘selfies’.*
(* That Morris Louis is very slimming)
well said.
The habitual selfie trend seems as meaningful as capturing pokemon.
Certainly no more or less so than the above comix treatment off the subject has on the subject.
Does this Baltus make me look fat?
That is elitist blueshit.