Art
A Symposium for Sea Kelp
At Norway's Lofoten International Art Festival, seaweed took center stage as subject and material for artists and researchers as part of their "Kelp Congress."
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Announcement
Kick Off the LA Phil’s Second Century With Gustavo Dudamel
The conductor leads the way into the future and begins the new season with bold and breathtaking music.
Interview
Cauleen Smith on Spirituality, Staging, and Having Enough
Discussing her solo show at MASS MoCA, the interdisciplinary artist explained, "When I'm talking about 'We Already Have What We Need,' what I'm really trying to talk about is our anxiety as human beings about how to live."
Announcement
Neuberger Museum of Art Presents “Art Got Into Me”: The Work of Engels the Artist
This show is a 10-year survey featuring more than 50 works by the Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Engels. On view from October 9 to December 22, 2019.
News
Anti-Oil Protesters Will Storm the British Museum with a Trojan Horse
BP or not BP? launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a giant Trojan Horse for its largest protest yet, which will coincide with the museum's Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition.
Art
A Moscow Museum's Ecological Rallying Cry
The Coming World is an ambitious portrait of a dark future in which the world has run out of its resources, but still hasn’t found a way to “Planet B.”
Announcement
SCAD Museum of Art Announces Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
The museum opens the group exhibition exploring the life and legacy of the preeminent visionary and abolitionist.
Film
A Film's Experimental Portrait of an Art Center's Struggles
A Bread Factory focuses on a town’s struggle to keep its sense of identity, and the importance of capital as much as art.
News
German Museum Will Give Artist Walid Raad Prize Despite City's Objection
Aachen withdrew its decision to award the Lebanese-American artist a €10,000 (~$10,900) prize for providing an "evasive" answer to an inquiry about his position on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Art
15 Artists Address the Politics of Food in Whimsical and Weighty Ways
Current:LA Food will focus not only on the ways that food can define and expand our world, but also on global issues of food justice, accessibility, and equity.
Art
The Beautiful Peculiarity of Leidy Churchman's Paintings
Churchman seems to be painting as a way to better comprehend his subjects; the canvases feel like dedications, striving to embody someone or something’s true nature.
Art
A New Art Museum in Turkey Looks Beyond Istanbul
Odunpazari Modern Museum, Turkey's first purpose-built modern art museum, has opened in a college town hours from Istanbul, but can it shift the center of gravity in a country seeing a wave of new art museums?