Art
A Conversation on Indigenous Craft and Design with Jeffrey Gibson
Join Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson for a discussion on Jeffrey Gibson's Inidigenous craft techniques.
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In Brief
Politicians Urge Victoria & Albert Museum to Return £500,000 Grant to Sackler Heiress
"Profiting from addiction is never ethical," said one Scottish Labor politician. "Transparency around donations is really important as no city or community wants to benefit from the suffering of others."
Art
Making Art from Architecture in Mexico City
Artists often use whatever materials they can find, creating works that reflect on the socioeconomic realities of their surroundings.
Books
César Aira’s Memoir Responds to an Existentialist Crisis
Whatever might be truth or fiction in Birthday is used in service of the book’s main question: What has been the purpose of the author's life?
Art
Radical Women Artists Prove Medea Never Dies
The exhibition, The Medea Insurrection, comes across not as an apology but a cumulative roar against the curtain of silence and opacity that renders invisible the works and lives of women artists everywhere.
Books
A Book Attempts to Solve the Joys and Mysteries of Puzzles
Oftentimes it feels as though art satisfies itself by “raising the question” or “complicating ideas” about a subject. Puzzles, by contrast, hold an inherent promise of resolution.
News
Billie Holiday Among Five Historic Women to Be Honored in New NYC Monuments
The De Blasio administration will build five individual memorials instead of the more ambitious group designs recommended by SheBuiltNYC's advisory committee to honor women's collaborative efforts.
Announcement
Stamps Gallery Presents the 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition Dry Socks in a Submerged Canoe
The exhibition includes work by Masimba Hwati, Laura Magnusson, Rowan Renee, Mayela Rodriguez, and Bridget Quinn. On view at the Stamps Gallery at the University of Michigan March 15 to 31.
Art
A Photographer's Portrait of Addiction and Recovery
Jeffrey Stockbridge's images reinsert those with opioid addictions into public discourses, picking up where mass media has failed.
Art
Knitted Works of Endangered Animals that Inspire Warmth and Empathy
Fiber artist Ruth Marshall, who used to work at the Bronx Zoo, uses a comforting medium to build interest in wildlife conservation.
Art
Required Reading
This week, museums have to change, academic publishers under siege, ignoring tear gas at the Warhol show, Meghan McCain and Eli Valley, and more.
Art
Botticelli Through a Graphic Novelist’s Eye
For Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, the painter, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Karl Stevens was called in to provide interpretive drawings of the Renaissance master's paintings.