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The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art
The exhibition at the Jewish Museum delves into “degenerate” art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition.
Tyler School of Art and Architecture Opens Fall 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
In Philadelphia, a series of solo shows delves into the interdisciplinary practices of graduates whose work explores identity, familial bonds, political constructs, and nature’s fragility.
Drawing the Intricate Environment of an Indigenous Venezuelan Community
Despite his work’s apparent abstraction, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe insists that “I don’t invent anything, everything I do is my jungle and what is there.”
Photographers “Reframe History” at Photo Vogue Festival
David Uzochukwu, Kennedi Carter, and Kiki Xue are among the 35 artists whose work will be displayed online and at the festival in Milan, Italy.
Columbia University Is Accepting Applications for Visual Arts and Sound Art MFA Programs
On November 14, join Columbia University School of the Arts for virtual information sessions with the program chair, faculty, and staff.
Art’s Final Resting Place
The stuff art dreams are made of.
Parsons School of Design Presents the MFA Fine Arts Class of 2021 Thesis Exhibition
No Vacancy, curated by Jody Graf, will be on view from October 26 through November 8 at the school’s Kellen Gallery in New York City.
Do You Dare Take the ‘World’s Fair Challenge’?
Jane Schoenbrun talks to Hyperallergic about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and making the internet cinematic.
Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece … Yet
To do so before they have returned the Maqdala treasures and the Benin Bronzes and the Easter Island statues and the Maori heads, before a coherent set of precepts for decolonization has been articulated, would affirm the wrong principle.
Curator Discovers What May Be the World’s Earliest Depiction of a Ghost
“Everybody in Mesopotamia, as far as I understand it, believed in ghosts,” said Irving Finkel, a curator of the British Museum’s Middle Eastern department.
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