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.
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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.
Art
El Anatsui's Urgent Visions of the Past and Future
While the material itself consists of forgettable or disposable objects from everyday life, El Anatsui transforms these into remarkable forms embedded with narratives and histories in manifold ways.
Art
Minimalist Art that Speaks for the Birds
With their exhibition, Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens investigate the complex, cross-species relationship between birds and humans.
Art
The Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar
Hujar wrote that his portrait subjects were “those who push themselves to any extreme” and those who “cling to the freedom to be themselves.”