News
After Auction Platform Goes Bankrupt, Organizations Fundraise to Recoup Losses
As the cultural sector ramps up relief efforts during the pandemic, galleries and nonprofits left unpaid by the online auctioneer Paddle8 are facing a double bind.
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Film
Sundance Institute Joins Relief Efforts to Help Film Workers Affected by COVID-19
Sundance is the first field partner of Artist Relief, an initiative to aid arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interview
Meet the US Southwest's Art Community: For Laura Copelin, “a Deep Relationship With Place” Opens Up New Avenues
An interview series spotlighting some of the creative community members in the US Southwest. Hear from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
Art
In Nate Lewis’s Hands, Portraits Become Palpable Landscapes
Here are Black bodies in motion which Lewis freezes in time to remake into patterns of overlapping leaves or the stars of shrunken constellations.
Art
As MFA Shows Get Canceled, Alternative Projects Take Shape
It would be impossible for artists not to feel disappointed after dedicating themselves to rigorous and costly programs of study that tout MFA exhibitions as a crowning opportunity.
Art
What Relevance Can Art Have for Frontline Providers Right Now?
A museum educator, who generally works with medical students in the galleries, considers the healing potential of art.
Art
Disappointed in the World’s Most Viral Video
I asked myself what makes entertainment media go viral, in particular music videos, these videos that call up some feeling of want or remembrance so that millions of people (or perhaps billions) reach for them again and again.
Film
Looking at Ourselves Through Social Distance Cinema
A one-location movie tills fertile thematic ground for auteurs, celebrities, and ordinary people who explore facets of being alone through film and video — the subtle distinctions between solitude, loneliness, isolation, confinement, paranoia, and sanctuary.
Art
The Last Tourist in Assisi
A writer reflects on Giotto, St. Francis, and what it means to have faith amid a pandemic.
Art
A History of Disease, Faith, and Recovery in Rome
What happens when an epidemic strikes and that profoundly human urge to kiss and touch items thought to be sacred becomes part of the problem?
Art
Livestreams and Spirit in a Time of Pestilence
The emergence of spiritual circles online in the face of COVID-19 strikes me as the opposite of viral — a place to be still in the face of viral turbulence on the streets and in the air, and viral turbulence on social media and the broader internet.
Art
From Viruses to Algorithms, We Are Always Under Threat
What can we learn from the exponential unleashing of viral codes, as they circulate and duplicate beneath the surface of your cultural and physical world?