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Required Reading
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson’s final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth’s paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
DU’s Emergent Digital Practices Faculty Merge Art & Technology to Inspire Change for Public Good
Graduate students in the University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices program work on research with faculty who are engaged directly with their communities, both online and off.
An Artist’s Altar to Divine Feminine Energy
Anastasia Pelias’s sculpture builds on this mythological legacy, suggesting we all have the ability to commune with a higher power and influence our futures.
A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly
Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.
ArtYard’s Invisible Reveals “Missing Histories” in Works by 12 Artists
Curated by Jill Kearney, this exhibition in Frenchtown, NJ amplifies stories both local and universal with work by Willie Cole, Sandra Ramos, sTo Len, and more.
The Machine Aesthetic in George Rickey’s Sculptures
Belinda Rathbone’s biography traces the sculptor’s embrace of kinetic mechanisms to his work in the Singer Sewing Machine factory.
Why Is A South Korean Museum Auctioning Off National Treasures?
It’s the first time in the country’s history that objects of this significance are offered for public sale.
The National Portrait Gallery Announces New Online Programs to Kick Off 2022
The first lecture is on the relationship between early portrait photography and diverse notions of US identity during the Gilded Age. Register to attend on January 25.
Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer of Tech Art, Gets a Museum Archive
Schwartz was at the forefront of computer-generated art before desktops or the kind of software that makes it commonplace today.
Beholding and Curating with Care
Curator La Tanya S. Autry shares a set of crucial questions she considers when curating images of anti-Black violence.
Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin’s subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.