News

NYC Council Hearing Exposes Opposition to Commercial Tenants’ Rights, Impacting Artists and Galleries

The proposed Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) would help commercial leaseholders bargain contract terms with their landlords on equal footing, but the bill has some strong detractors.

Art

Reality and Artifice Collide at Gowanus Open Studios

Collage was the process of choice at this year's open studios, mashing up decades, styles, processes, and technologies across works.

In Brief

NYC Allocates $198.4M for Largest Ever Cultural Budget

The unprecedented allocation includes $43.9 million for cultural programming, a 40% increase from 2014.

Announcement

Laguna Art Museum Presents Elizabeth Turk’s Shoreline Project on November 3

Shoreline Project is the commissioned work of art for Art & Nature, a multidisciplinary exploration of art’s engagements with the natural world.

In Brief

Easter Islanders Ask British Museum to Return Sacred Statue, Offering Replica in Return

The Rapa Nui community has offered a basalt replica of the eight-foot, four-ton sculpture called Hoa Hakananai’a, which was stolen in 1868.

Announcement

Your Creative Practice. Your Research. Your MFA in Art.

Stamps School of Art & Design at U-M now accepting applications for MFA in Art.

In Brief

From the Rubble of Brazil’s National Museum, the Oldest Known Skeleton in the Americas Is Recovered

Museum officials thought that the 12,000-year-old remains of a human female were incinerated in the September 2 fire, but they recently announced the dramatic recovery of "Luzia's" skull.

Film

A Neorealist Portrait of Black Single Motherhood in Post-Recession Florida

In his latest film, Life and Nothing More, Spanish director Antonio Méndez Esparza employed non-professional actors and documentary realism to create a moving study of race, class, and familial bonds in America.

Announcement

SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice Program Presents Fall 2018 Special Events

Featuring Stockholm-based artist duo Goldin+Senneby, renowned curator Clémentine Deliss, and Anselm Franke of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Art

The Largest Fair Devoted to Printmaking Will Feature 80 Exhibitors

The works on display will include both Old Master and contemporary works, as well as rare and new-to-market pieces.

Art

Condensing Years of Internet Browsing History into a Single Frame

Kazuki Umezawa's “internet landscapes” vividly capture the schizophrenic experience of the internet.

Art

Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art

Witchy and prescient, Hilma af Klint's paintings from the early 1900s curiously combine spiritualism with an interest in evolutionary biology.