Art
What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde
To Dream Avant-Garde acknowledges the artistic innovators of today — those who push the cultural status quo in their work.
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Film
Björk’s Movie Debut, The Juniper Tree, Is Restored and Revisited
The movie was the first feature from Nietzchka Keene, who worked on microscopic budgets, often incorporating mythological or supernatural elements.
News
DC Commission Reverses Course After Attempt to Censor Artists
The mayor’s office rescinded the controversial amendment, and grantees have received a letter explaining it as an “over-correction” just moments after the censorship push made national headlines.
Art
A Fantastic Recreation of a Renaissance Cabinet of Curiosities
The Houston Museum of Natural Science brings back Ferrante Imperato's cabinets of curiosities in its decade-long exhibit.
News
Week in Review: Gallerists Fined $15M for Art Scam, and Kremlin Museum Investigates Stolen Malevich
Also, a Velásquez is authenticated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Kerry James Marshall swears off public artwork after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s misstep, and more.
News
University of Texas at Dallas Receives Over 400 Swiss Artworks, and Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Revolutionary War Portrait
Plus, the Bruce Museum receives a collection of Native American baskets, textiles, and ceramics, and the Jewish Museum Vienna receives 170 Japanese netsuke on long-term loan.
Announcement
Mahima Kapoor Launched Her International Art Career With a MassArt MFA
The New Delhi based painter and printmaker discusses her experience in MassArt’s 2D Fine Arts MFA Program and life as an artist after graduate school.
Art
Some Dark and Satirical Takes on Misogyny
In Strange Girls, the mixed-media artist pokes fun at twisted gender dynamics through visual puns.
Performance
Spellbound by a Live Painting Performance on Election Night
Tashi Norbu, who draws on Buddhist thangka painting, recited mantras between bursts of activity at a crowded gallery.
News
Artists Accuse DC Arts Commission of Censoring Free Speech for Grant Money
The Commission recently told its grantees that it could terminate any funding interpreted as "lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent." The ACLU may sue on First Amendment grounds if the language is not repealed.
Art
An Artist's Ofrenda Celebrates the Day of the Dead at Green-Wood Cemetery
Last weekend, visitors to the Green-Wood Cemetery celebrated the dead with an altar for Dia de Muertos.
Art
A Collective Gives Female Curators a Room of Their Own
The founders of Assembly Room are invested in representing the female curatorial vision — and this vision may include artists from anywhere on the gender spectrum.