Art
Six Shows in Sharjah Challenge Curators to Look Beyond the Usual Suspects
Part I of two reports from the 2018 Spring Exhibitions and the March Meeting in Sharjah.
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Comics
An Illustrator Revisits His Fifth-Grade Sketchbook
For his new zine, Travis Millard redrew his childhood sketchbook.
Art
Sound Artist Ryoji Ikeda Visualizes Big Data
Ryoji Ikeda's overwhelming sound and video installations, exhibited at Centre Pompidou, evoke the totalitarian grip that Big Data holds on our daily lives.
Announcement
Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Aram Han Sifuentes's We Are Never Never Other
Commissioned by the Pulitzer as a part of the artist’s residency, We Are Never Never Other is a large-scale protest banner installed on the facade of the museum in St. Louis, MO.
Art
A Collective Designs "Funktional" Objects that Combine Fine Art and the Everyday
Con Artist Collective promises to showcase work that combines the “tenuous space between fine art and the everyday.”
Announcement
Nasher Prize Dialogues: Performance as Sculpture, Featuring Theaster Gates and Ragnar Kjartansson
The dynamic conversation will explore the role of performance within artists’ respective sculptural practices.
Art
The True Collaborative Power Between Artist and Curator
You can approach each work in this show as individual, but the really charming and kinetic action happens in the interactions.
Art
An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes
The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.
Art
How Little Women Overshadowed the Artistic Career of Another Alcott Sister
A decade after the bestselling novel was published, the younger sister May Alcott Nieriker came out with a women’s guide to studying art in Europe.
Interview
“I Couldn’t Avoid the '60s”: Diane Kurys on Her Early Filmmaking in France
From capturing teenage innocence to 1968, Kurys's slice-of-life movies are sparkling and big-hearted, but not without a caustic side.
In Brief
Judy Chicago Responds to Criticisms About the "Dinner Party"
A discussion in the press between an artist and critics amplifies the weak points of Second-wave feminism.
News
Exclusive Look at the New York Film Festival's Annual Showcase of Innovative Film, Projections
The New York Film Festival's Projections lineup has been announced and we have the complete list that includes films by Sky Hopinka, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, and others.