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Call for Applications: Bard Graduate Center's Master's in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Training the next generation of curators, museum and arts professionals, scholars, and educators.
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Interview
The Insidious Role of Gender Bias in How Artists Grapple with Personal Finances
Our culture is quick to put down a woman who seeks money or power at the same time that it valorizes the men who do so.
Art
The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self
The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.
Art
Did the Ancient Romans Use Infographics?
A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world.
Announcement
BAM Opens Doors to Its First Dedicated Visual Art Space
The Ruden Family Gallery and additional programming deepen the performing arts institution’s commitment to visual art.
Art
A New Generation of Artists Confronts Environmental and Colonial Issues
Socrates Sculpture Park presents its annual exhibition of artist fellows in an effort to nurture emerging talent.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Félix Vallotton, whitesplaining history, a note to curators, women in the commercial art world, Judith Butler on anti-semitism, and more.
Music
The Disquieting Tranquility of Alternative Rock
New releases from Clairo, Oso Oso, Lindsey Stirling, and Tyler, the Creator.
Art
The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
Art
Zoë Buckman's Embroidered Texts Have the First-Person Immediacy of Internet Speech
There is both vulnerability and strength in Buckman's texts and bodily forms.
Art
Are Joe Massey’s Prison Drawings the Next Big Thing?
A remarkable cache of drawings by a now-deceased, African-American prisoner in Ohio might be just what the art market has been waiting for.
Art
The Unseen Labor of Women in Art
Sara VanDerBeek’s new print series, Women & Museums, interrogates how women occupy institutional spaces, particularly through the prominence of traditionally craft media like ceramics and textiles.