Books
A Contemporary Look at Punk From the Global to the Local
To understand what it is to be punk in the 21st century, a group of scholars who identify as punks, have gathered their research into an insightful book.
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Interview
As Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins, Reconsidering the Watergate Courtroom Sketches
These drawings by Freda Reiter captured the impeachment drama of Richard Nixon over 40 years ago.
Art
Marie EvB Gibbons, a Denver Artist Who Shaped a Generation of Students
Gibbons was a fixture of the Denver art community who died in September 2019. Her work uses slip casting, organic matter, and found objects to show the fragility of the human experience.
Opinion
Nancy Pelosi Says the Arts Will Help Heal America, but They Can’t
Pelosi called the artists “something where we find our common ground.” However, clear political divides in the art world are more apparent than ever.
Announcement
Kari Marboe Replicates Missing Sculpture for Exhibition at Mills College Art Museum
Pursuing a web of leads, Kari Marboe attempts to recreate a Daniel Rhodes sculpture for Mills College Art Museum. On view Jan 22-March 15.
Art
Breathing Creative Life into Santa Fe's Empty Buildings
The nonprofit organization Vital Spaces is expanding into the Midtown Campus, where they will have studio and exhibition space while the city evaluates potential long-term developers for the project.
Announcement
Claremont Graduate University Redefines Arts Education for the 21st Century
The Center for Business and Management of the Arts at CGU is redefining education in art making, markets, and management through its innovative interfield programs, entrepreneurial thinking, honest self-reflection — and oh, Los Angeles.
Film
100 Years of Federico Fellini
On the centenary of his birth, we look back at some of the influential director’s most iconic films, all of which are currently streaming online. While standouts for their panoramic elegance, many are also disturbingly chauvinistic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a Mercedes inspired by the film Avatar, the psychosexual dimensions of Slave Play, Instagram censorship, the dance that revolutionized ballet, the anti-imperialist history of the untucked shirt, and more.
Music
Jpegmafia, Isolated in His Own Head
The more you listen to All My Heroes Are Cornballs, the more it teaches you how to listen.
Art
Cowboys, Curators, and Finicky-Fingered Mincers
As fairly customary, Glen Baxter is taking a tilt at the absurdities of the fuzzy, whizzy showbizyness of the art world.
Art
What Giacometti Learned From de Sade
Prompted by his friend André Breton, Alberto Giacometti first read de Sade in 1933, and his studio notes ruminated on seduction, idolatry, and fetishism.