Announcement

Apply Now for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program is currently accepting applications for its 2019–2020 residency period. Applications are due Friday, February 15.

News

200 Workers at Vancouver Art Gallery Go on Strike [UPDATED]

The unionized workers, who have been without a contract since 2017, say the gallery privileges upper management at the expense of other employees.

In Brief

The Criterion Channel Will Stream Over 1,000 Art House Films

On April 8th, Criterion will launch a new streaming service featuring over 1,000 classic and contemporary art-house films from around the world.

Comics

Survival Tips for the Freezing Artist

Burn your angrily discarded figure drawings for warmth.

Performance

Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia

Smith's Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.

News

Ford Foundation Fosters Independent Curators and New Talent with Social Practice Gallery

Opening in March 2019, the Ford Foundation Gallery's first three exhibitions will explore the theme "Utopian Imagination."

News

Art Movements

Two photographers receive Carmignac Photojournalism Award to carry out a documentarian expedition of the Arctic, the Chinese galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have reopened, and more.

Performance

A Close Reading of Slave Play Interrogates the Burden of Interracial Trauma

Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?

Art

Refashioning the Kimono, from Fine Art to Pop Culture

Kimono Refashioned asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.

Opinion

The Neoliberal Hypocrisies of Ivanka Trump Vacuuming

The fact that Ivanka Vacuuming has successfully annoyed America’s First Oligarchy is enough to forgive some of this disappointing symbolism.

Art

Hear from Judithe Hernández, a Crucial Figure of LA’s Chicano Arts Movement

Originally gaining prominence as a muralist, she became the fifth and only female member of the art collective Los Four.

News

An Auschwitz Recreation at a Turkish Film Premiere Causes Uproar

Among the glamour of Cicero’s red carpet premiere were disturbing references to World War II concentration camps, including barking German shepherds, guards in SS uniforms, and children's shoes piled on the floor.