Art
Drawing Meaning Out of Art with Conversation
The exhibition owes its title to a famous essay by philosopher Édouard Glissant, and it asks some big questions about how artists convey the substance of their art.
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Film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Surreal Films Are Terribly Awkward, Tender, and Triumphant
Five films that inspired Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated The Favourite portray humans who seem to be putting on their bodies and native tongues for the very first time.
Announcement
Make a Space That Tells Your Story, a Guide to Creating Your Online Portfolio
Where to start planning, how to organize your content and tips on launching your artist website on Squarespace.
News
The Watercolour World Documents the Planet Before Photography
The initiative has already digitized 80,000 images, categorized and made searchable to the public.
Art
Examining the Underbelly of US Culture: Gun Violence, White Supremacy, and Greed
Sandow Birk’s investigation of US culture and politics is unusual in that its own explicit politics are not overly didactic — a difficult line to walk successfully.
Film
An Intimately Filmed Portrait of a Willfully Fragmented and Mutable Persona
GLUE is a 50-minute portrait of the director Oisín Byrne’s friend and longtime collaborator, a quick-witted and acid-tongued cross-dresser who refuses to adhere to a fixed identity.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, New York, and the United Kingdom.
Film
Velvet Buzzsaw Hacks Through Every Art World Cliché
That writer and director Dan Gilroy tackles a subject so incredibly ripe for mockery but goes for the easiest, most tired clichés is quite disappointing.
News
Week in Review: Finding Leonardo’s Fingerprint, Iraq’s Mosul Museum Reopens
Also, Charline von Heyl exhibition extended after government shutdown, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has apologized to Dr. Angela Y. Davis and more.
In Brief
EU Official Demands Luxembourg Freeport Close Amid Money Laundering Allegations
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has referred the case, which concerns a high-security facility housing art and luxury goods, to the European commissioner of economic and financial affairs.
Art
Why Mark di Suvero Chose Public Art
The artist shares why he would rather place his art outdoors than in an institution.
Books
A Colossal Mural Chronicles 375 Million Years of Bird Evolution
Artist Jane Kim painted a 2,500 square-foot "Wall of Birds" mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York.