Art
Five Latinx Art Spaces Band Together to Amplify Their Reach
The Latinx Arts Alliance plans to address the lack of financial support for Latinx spaces, while also advancing and supporting Latinx arts programming in Los Angeles.
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Film
A Rom-Com Miniseries Made Entirely in Quarantine
Love in the Time of Corona is striking for looking like a normal production despite its constraints.
News
Week in Review: Biden and Harris’s Stance on the Arts; Met Museum’s First Curator of Native American Art
Also, the Everson Museum of Art will sell its prized Jackson Pollock to buy works by underrepresented artists, and more.
Film
An Oscar-winning Director Sets Her Sights on the Failed US Hostage Rescue in Iran
Barbara Kopple’s Desert One chronicles the disastrous events of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980.
News
Feminists Take Over Federal Building in Mexico City and Use Painting as a Weapon
In protest of femicide, the artists painted over portraits of all-male historical figures hanging in the National Human Rights Commission.
News
Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Declines to Voluntarily Recognize Faculty Union
“We trust our faculty as thoughtful scholars and creatives, and I support the faculty’s ability to do thorough research and make a quality decision about what they want for their future,” said David Yager, President and CEO of UArts.
News
A Museum Sells a Prized Pollock to Acquire Art by Underrepresented Artists
The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York will sell the 1946 painting through Christie’s; it is estimated to garner between $12 and 18 million.
Art
The Noguchi Museum Can Exist Without Visitors
The films of Distance Noguchi show the empty museum’s famous sculpture garden faintly stirred by the wind, the gentle splash of a fountain, or the chance arrival of a bird.
Opinion
It’s Time to End the 9/11 Tribute in Light
After almost 20 years, what started as a temporary memorial has turned into a symbol of extreme nationalism.
News
Second MoMA Trustee, Glenn Dubin, to be Subpoenaed by Virgin Islands for Jeffrey Epstein Ties
The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands intends to serve subpoenas to Dubin and his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin (who is also Epstein’s ex-girlfriend).
Announcement
Frost Art Museum Presents an Online Panel With the Artists and Curators of Otros Lados
Itzel Basualdo, Hugo Crosthwaite, and Judithe Hernández will join staff to discuss their work, the exhibition, and art by Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Announcement
University of Houston School of Art Spotlights Bold Voices in Contemporary Art, Design, and Criticism
Aruna D’Souza, De Nichols, Nicholas Galanin, and Derrick Adams are this fall’s visiting speakers. Their lectures are free and open to the public for online viewing.