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Natan Last
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Test your knowledge of Harlem Renaissance icons, affairs in art history, the latest in art worker organizing, and more this month, including a special clue in honor of New Yorkers’ beloved escapee owl, ~who~ may be gone but will never be forgotten.
Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about crosswords. More by Natan Last
Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.
“I think the power of the artist — the student artist — is to envision a new world and actually embody it,” said a Parsons sophomore.
Work by graduate artists of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University is on view May 6–19 in Massachusetts.
Created in 1969 by late political cartoonist Naji al-Ali, the figure known as Handala has long symbolized Palestinian identity and resilience.
Amid aggressive escalations at UCLA and arrests at USC, protesters are invoking the artistic legacy of radical activism.
Recent artworks by the co-founder of Pussy Riot will be featured in a pop-up exhibition, along with an artist Q&A and performance, on May 16 in NYC.
The scrolls, pottery, and a 19th-century hand-drawn map were presumably looted from the Japanese island in the final days of World War II.
Radiant is a bountiful source of information about the late queer artist’s life and career, but it says oddly little about his art and its enduring legacy.
Explore Rhode Island School of Design’s online intensives for high school students interested in pursuing art and design in college.
Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from The Bennett Prize, Ucross, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Butterfly Dream speaks eloquently of the artist’s loves and losses, his public burdens and private desires.
