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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, Canada, Michigan, New York, and New Zealand.
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Art
Netflix’s Participation at the Berlin Film Festival Is Riling Up Cinema
The streaming giant has set its sights on prestige film festivals. But as the controversy surrounding its entry Elisa y Marcela prove, it’s going to be a bumpy road.
News
Week in Review: Amazon Cancels Queens HQ2, NEA Awards Grants Despite Shutdown
Also, Uhaul Gallery has changed its name after a threat of legal action, an Iranian photojournalist's work was used in a disparaging Trump tweet, and more.
In Brief
Serial Art Thief, Who Stole Nearly 250 Artworks, Arrested Yet Again
His mother has destroyed almost 100 art objects to minimize evidence of the stolen goods.
News
Protesters Demand London's Goldsmiths University Stops Outsourcing Workforce
Over 100 protesters showed up to campaign for the rights of outsourced security staff.
Books
Politicize Your Bookshelf with Colorful, Codified Stickers
Shelf Life, a take-home exercise, makes you think more deeply about the paradigms you might be absorbing, perhaps unconsciously, from your own book collection.
News
Whitney Acquires Norman Lewis Painting, and Trump's Wedding Cake Sells at Auction
Plus, the New Orleans Museum of Art acquires 26 new works for its sculpture garden, and an Ebony G. Patterson tapestry joins the Pérez Museum of Art Miami collection.
News
Art Dealer Mary Boone Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
In September, the gallerist pled guilty to two counts of filing a false federal income tax return, hiding $3.7 million in company profits from the government.
Books
The Early History of Women in the Digital Arts
New Media Futures is poised to become a valuable study tool for those interested in the intersection between art, women artists, and technology.
Announcement
Cauleen Smith, Irena Haiduk, and Martine Syms on View at the ICA in Richmond
Two new exhibitions open on February 16 at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Comics
Work, You Are My Valentine
Thinking about you keeps me up at night.
Art
Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.