Interview

How a Political Sociologist Fell into Photojournalism After a 1980 Trip to Iran

Following her initial trip, Randy Goodman returned to Iran multiple times, shifting her focus to the many women she encountered.

News

After Museum Director Is Fired, Artist Shuts Down Her Exhibition on Police Brutality [UPDATED]

The museum’s director Kimberli Meyer was fired days before the exhibition opened, a project that she had helped to spearhead.

News

#NopeToArms Collective Stages a Grassroots Exhibition of Art Pulled from Design Museum [UPDATE]

From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil, and Injustice displays the work of artists who protested the London Design Museum's relationship with arms dealer Leonardo.

Announcement

Apply to the Artist Studios Program at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)

Artists and designers in the six-month residency program receive studio space and a stipend. Applications are due October 15 for the February–July, 2019 session.

Interview

An Afrofeminist Project Uses Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism engages Black womanhood and technological possibility, rejecting the marginalization of people of color in the scientific realm.

Art

The LA County Fair Unearths Long-Buried Stories of Route 66

Alt 66 gives insight into the lives of those who built, traveled, and lived along the interstate — a diverse blend of race and class, all dreaming of the West.

Announcement

Stamps Gallery Presents Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire

The exhibition draws inspiration from Ann Arbor’s legacy of social movements and experimental art practices from the late-1950s to the 1970s as its point of departure.

In Brief

A Demonic Fowl Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch Came to Life on the New York City Subway

The artist Rae Swon crafted the viral, hellish art garment.

Film

Filming California’s Oldest Freeway and the Communities It Traverses

Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.

Art

At Manifesta, Artists Address Italy's Migrant Crisis

This year, Palermo, Italy is hosting the nomadic European art biennale Manifesta, which aims to address the city's ongoing migrant crisis — but is the art on view enough to foment actual social and political change?

Art

Eduardo Carrillo, a Painter Who Took Chicano Art Beyond Identity’s Borders

Carrillo’s paintings re-envision the history of art through the heightened Chicano consciousness of his generation and the richness of his bicultural roots.

Announcement

Social Practice Queens Combines Art and Social Action in Unique Graduate Programs

The low-cost studio-based degree pairs the resources of the Queens College Art Department with the community-based activism of the Queens Museum.