Performance
A Play Casts Hercules as a Toxic Male (but Still a Hero)
A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.
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Announcement
McKnight Visual Artist Fellows Discussion Series at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
This discussion series features the 2017 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows in conversation with nationally-renown art curators and critics.
Opinion
Museum of the Bible Has Jumped the Ark
Do we really have to explain to the CEO of the Museum of the Bible that archaeologists didn’t find the rock that killed Goliath?
News
Amazon Accused of Artwashing HQ2 Negotiations in Activist Petition
The Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) says city officials are helping the corporate behemoth steamroll dissent.
Art
A Night of Martha Colburn’s Satirical, Surrealist Films
From a hand-painted critique of the evils of television to a humorous celebration of feline exhibitionists, Colburn's singular short films explore a range of themes.
Books
How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America
The Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.
Books
Miyó Vestrini, a Fierce Venezuelan Poet Who Wrote About Death
Grenade in Mouth is the first full-length collection of Vestrini’s texts available in English.
News
Asylum Seeker Wins Literary Prize for Book Written via WhatsApp
Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for a book he wrote through WhatsApp texts over five years while living in a Papua New Guinea detention center, where he is still imprisoned.
News
Ariana Grande Accused of Plagiarizing Artist in Music Video
Previously, the video's director, Dave Meyers, came under legal fire for using imagery similar to that of artist Lina Iris Viktor in a music video for Kendrick Lamar and SZA's song for the Black Panther movie.
In Brief
Warhol Ate Burger King in a Super Bowl Commercial, But He Was a McDonald’s Fan
The ad implores viewers to #EatLikeAndy — but it's unlikely this is how Andy ate.
Announcement
Explore, Collaborate and Connect This Summer at Chautauqua School of Art
Study with us for seven weeks of bliss, critical discourse, studio time and a rare opportunity to experiment freely. Need-based scholarships are available.
Art
Artists Rethink the Tradition of Art as Resistance
At the Museum of Arts and Design, a group of artists come together to discuss the ways in which art can bring about social change.