Performance
The Wooster Group Explores Black Folklore in Texas State Prisons
The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.
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Art
India’s Reclusive Master of Primordial Form
Krishna Reddy was one of the most innovative printmakers at the most innovative atelier in Paris.
Art
The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer
Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.
Art
In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period
The medieval epoch shouldn't only be envisioned through a European lens.
Art
The Disturbing Yet Hopeful Paintings of an Outsider Artist
Bernard Gilardi's exhibition suggests a positive grouping of misfits, a hopeful interpretation of the ambiguity within Gilardi’s paintings as a sanctuary for the odd.
Art
Documenting the Horrors of America's Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities
"I basically went from photographing abandoned houses to photographing abandoned people," artist Jeffrey Stockbridge says about his Kensington Blues series in Philadelphia.
In Brief
Artists Hired by Apple Are Being Paid in AirPods and Apple Watches
The United States's first trillion-dollar company asks artists participating in its Today at Apple event series to take their pick of gadgets in lieu of a paycheck.
Art
How Stonewall Broke Through Barriers with Love and Resistance
A New York Public Library exhibition shows how so many people at the time of Stonewall — and after — have been able to live more wholly integrated lives.
In Brief
After Breaking Thumb off Terracotta Warrior, Man Points Finger at Museum
The Franklin Institute is locked in a legal battle with the finger's thief, but the defendant's lawyers are demanding that the museum release security records that could prove this was merely a case of drunken vandalism.
Art
Tax Policy Should be Part of Our Basic Civic Education
Taxes are our only mandatory civic duty. So why is tax education left out of civics?
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in New York, Pennsylvania, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
Announcement
Apply Now for the Arts/Industry Residency Program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
The Arts/Industry residency program connects artists with the resources, technology, and materials of Kohler Co. in Wisconsin. 2020 residency applications are open through April 1st.