In Brief

Conservators Uncover a Brilliant Pink Sky Buried in a Vincent van Gogh

Museum researchers are restoring the artist's hidden, luminous spectrum of colors that have faded over time.

Art

An Exhibition Comparing Hockney and van Gogh Searches for Common Ground

A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum brings together depictions of the natural world by Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney.

Art

Formerly Incarcerated Japanese Americans Organize a Protest Against Family Separation at the Border

Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.

Film

A New Documentary Creates a Deeply Confused Portrait of Steve Bannon

Alison Klayman's The Brink is stuck between the idea of Bannon as the Great Manipulator and Bannon as just another hateful fascist agitator.

Art

Artists in LA Lead a Public Procession for Migration and Inclusivity

Rejecting divisive fear and alienation, members of the South West Asian and North African diaspora will highlight the radical power of communal visibility.

In Brief

Musée d’Orsay Puts Focus on Overlooked and Anonymous Black Models in French Masterpieces

Black models: from Géricault to Matisse temporarily retitles works featuring historically anonymous Black models to honor their sitters.

In Brief

London’s Skyline Will Bloom With Proposed “Tulip” Building

From the architects of the Gherkin comes another glass skyscraper full of eccentricities. City planners have put the building on track for approval despite objections from the mayor's office.

News

Sacklers and Purdue Pharma Pay $270 Million to Settle Oklahoma Opioid Lawsuit [UPDATED]

The art philanthropist family, though not named in the lawsuit, will contribute $75 million to fund a new addiction treatment and research center at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa.

Announcement

Apply for Rhode Island School of Design's Global Summer Studies: Engaging Ideas and Practices Across Cultures

For summer 2019, RISD launches a set of studio and liberal arts courses in the Azores, Berlin, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, and at RISD’s site in Rome. Applications are due April 11.

Art

How Not to Decolonize Your Museum

The Asian Civilisations Museum's latest exhibition is a toothless interrogation of Sir Stamford Raffles, one of Southeast Asia's most notorious colonizers.

Announcement

Neuberger Museum of Art Announces the 2019 Winner of the Roy R. Neuberger Prize

The Prize, now carrying an honorarium of $25,000, has been awarded to Yto Barrada, an internationally-acclaimed French-Moroccan multi-media artist.

Books

Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch

Knausgaard's monomaniacal excavation of the self and soul probably finds its closest counterpart in the work of Munch, his countryman.