News

Government Shutdown May Force Smithsonian Museums to Close Starting Jan 2 [UPDATED]

With the government shutdown continuing into the new year, Smithsonian museums, along with the National Zoo, must prepare to close as well.

News

Week in Review: Ivory Coast Demands 148 Works From France, Banksy Work Appears in Wales

Also, the Park Avenue Armory receives a grant from the city, Agnes Gund and Oprah Winfrey will help chair a charity art auction, and more.

Art

Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem

Director Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph's "Fly Paper" transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava's 1950s portraits of Harlem.

Community

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in Belgium, California, England, New York, and Texas.

News

Astronomical Images of Newly-Formed Galaxies

Recently, researchers released high-resolution images of the swirls and rings of still-forming planetary and star systems.

Art

Artists and Poets Look at Homelands from a Distance

The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands at the Arab American National Museum amplifies individual immigrant voices, presenting them as fully human rather than as statistical abstractions.

News

Art Movements

Red Bull Arts Detroit has selected their fellows and artists in residence, 270 artists and art professionals sign a statement in support of safe spaces in the South Asian art community, and more.

Art

Material Messages Between Earth and the Divine

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York examines 4,000 years of votive offerings.

News

Tate Acquires Sylvia Pankhurst's Watercolors, and North Carolina Museum of Art Acquires William Wetmore Sculpture

Plus, the Telfair Museums are gifted 347 photographs by Bruce Davidson.

News

Women’s Center for Creative Work Plans to Diversify the Subjects of Stock Photos

When the Women’s Center for Creative Work realized the minimal representation for people of color, women, genderqueer, and disabled folks in stock photos, they launched the WCCW Stock Photo Project.

Opinion

When a Lynching Memorial Becomes a Photo Opportunity

A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow's violence through public memorials.

Art

Translating the New Tax Bill for Small Businesses

Can small business owners and freelancers benefit from the business deduction in the government's new tax bill?