Art
A Showcase of Hard-to-Categorize Art Projects in San Pedro
Over 40 artist-run spaces, experimental arts organizations, and independent galleries will set up shop in a decommissioned gun battery at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
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News
After CalArts Announces Tuition Hike, Students Organize in Protest
On Tuesday morning, CalArts students organized outside of Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, where the Board of Trustees voted on the tuition for the next academic year, which will total $50,850.
Film
In 3 Faces, Three Generations of Iranian Actresses Grapple with Oppression
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has violated his 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban to make a powerful feature about Iranian women’s relationships to art and labor.
News
Catholics Pray and Dancers Protest Unfair Wages at Marina Abramović Exhibition in Poland
An unholy alliance has formed between Catholics protesting debunked conspiracy theories linking Abramović to Satanism, and the Polish dance community, who have been complaining of mistreatment and unfair wages leading up to her career retrospective The Cleaner.
Opinion
Why Meow Wolf Coming to Phoenix Is Worrisome
While it is admirable that a group of artists has been able to be so monetarily successful, we have to ask: What is Meow Wolf doing for culture as a whole?
Art
Artists Illuminate the Catastrophic Future of Rising Sea Levels
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta activated three synchronized lines of light to illuminate the future's projected high tide if climate change progresses at its current pace.
Art
Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
Books
The Radical Activist Ambitions of New Left Cinema
A new book chronicles how leftist directors of the 1960s and '70s used the essay film as an activist tool.
Art
After a Mural of Colin Kaepernick Is Demolished, Several Take Its Place
Just before the Super Bowl in Atlanta a mural of Kaepernick and the wall it was painted on was demolished, raising the question whether there was an anti-Colin Kaepernick conspiracy at work.
Announcement
Apply for Columbia University Summer Intensives in Painting, Photography, and Printmaking
Admission to Summer courses at Columbia Art School is open to all, no degrees required. Classes run from May 28 to July 5, 2019.
Art
The Undiscussed Sexual Exploitation Buried in Matisse’s Odalisque Paintings
So ingrained is exploitation in our understanding of female sexuality within (and outside of) art history that incredibly basic readings recede into the background and are deemed somehow radical.
Art
Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing
The OG Experience amplified the voices most directly affected by mass incarceration, putting the spotlight on artists thoughtfully grappling with the prison industrial complex.