Announcement
Inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence Recognizes Immigrant Accomplishment in Art History
This year's $100,000 prize was bestowed to art historian and curator Carmen C. Bambach of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Opinion
How Criticisms of Roma Have Revealed American Biases
Assuming an audience’s prior knowledge of Mexican culture and major events is a powerful way of centering the Mexican experience.
News
MacDowell Colony Launched a Fellowship in the Name of Artist Musa McKim Guston
The new annual Fellowship, for an artist working in any discipline, was funded by a gift from the daughter of artists Philip Guston and Musa McKim Guston.
In Brief
After 45 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment, an Artist Sells His Paintings to Get By
"These are like my children," Richard Phillips says. "But I don't have any money. I don't have a choice." The artist has been met with bureaucratic blockades to receive the $2 million that he is eligible for under Michigan law.
News
Berlin Memorial to Gay Victims of the Holocaust Vandalized for Second Time
Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who designed the monument over a decade ago, says, "The memorial can be repaired — it is far worse when the victim of violent homophobia is a human being."
Art
An AI Artist's Twitter Feed Is an Art Gallery
The images and videos Mario Klingemann posted under the hashtag #BigGAN can only be appreciated by treating his Twitter feed as a digital exhibition.
Art
Women’s Tense Relationship with Fabric Artfully Unfolds
Poorly Watched Girls is Suzanne Bocanegra's largest exhibition to date and the culmination of her collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a mirrored house in the Swiss Alps, California’s obsession with health, the Trump wall’s debt to Minimalism, Berlin’s Arab intellectual community, rain drama in LA, and more.
Books
Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.
Books
Jack Kerouac's Beat Paintings
A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Enigmatic Views
Sultan is both the artist and the artisan — a view that goes against the grain characterizing art as a purely conceptual activity, a form of entrepreneurship.
Art
Elisabeth Frink’s Human Bestiary
Few British sculptors stood at a remove from art world trends as consistently as Frink.