Books
How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.
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Art
Columbia University MFA Students Gamble on Uncertainty in Thesis Exhibition
The class of 2019 is presenting works that inspire curiosity and fear — palimpsests for a generation still trying to understand itself.
Art
How Latin American Artists Have Used Language to Political and Poetic Effects
The artworks in Words/Matter suggest that language is not simply ethereal and cerebral, but infinitely malleable, corporeal, and tactile.
In Brief
MOCA Los Angeles to Implement a Free Admission Policy
The shift will be funded with a $10 million donation from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Clark Powers, who says: "Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.”
Art
Five Decades of Feminist Art from Across Eastern Europe
States of Focus is a powerful testimony to contemporary women artists who have endured and continue to endure assaults on their self-determination.
Performance
Dance Performances in Historic Churches Revive Spiritual Histories
The Grounds that Shout! project put Reggie Wilson in the role of curator as well as choreographer to present his own work alongside the dances of seven Philadelphia choreographers and companies who created the performances.
Art
An Artists' Residency Provides the Chance to Rethink Sustainable Practices of Art Making
Eight international artists selected for a month-long residency in the South of France find new ways to reconcile their art with environmental aims.
Art
Using Collage to Illuminate How People Are Shaped by Identity Strategies
Frida Orupabo's individual collage figures literally expose different layers as if asking the viewer to reflect on what they themselves are composed of.
News
Workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Move to Unionize
A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”
Art
A Nonjudgmental Look at Our Impulse to Share Images
Although social media has amped up the sharing of photos, the urge behind it is nothing new.
In Brief
Cindy Sherman and Catherine Opie Unveil a Joint Project of Wearable Art
The two artists unveiled a new line of shell cameos made into rings, earrings, cufflinks, and pendants at the opening of the Venice Biennale.
Art
Doreen Garner's Visceral, Bodily Sculptures Confront Racial Trauma
Garner confronts viewers with the unspeakable abuses perpetrated on the bodies — and subjectivities — of Black women.