Podcast

How the #MeToo Movement Is Transforming the Performing Arts

This month's American Theatre magazine is full of stories of sexual assault in the performing arts. We talk to Senior Editor Diep Tran about the impact of #MeToo on the theatre scene.

News

Forum at Cal State Long Beach Provides Few Answers on Museum Director’s Firing

In an attempt to provide some clarity, the university held a question-and-answer session for students and faculty earlier this week.

News

Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Ai Weiwei Installation, and Getty Acquires Betye Saar Archive

Plus, an Albert Giacometti sculpture sells at auction, and Sotheby's cancels their sale of the Count and Countess Viel Castel collection after an unnamed American buys the entire collection.

In Brief

Frank Sinatra Had an Unknown Talent for Abstract Art

His 1991 painting "Abstract after Mondrian" is one of multiple Sinatra originals for sale in the estate auction

Art

Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss

Flarmingos is an ongoing augmented reality project, on Governors Island in New York, in which artist Kristin Lucas asks people to join digital flamingos in a dance of ecological awareness.

News

New Evidence Suggests a Double-Homicide Propelled Thomas Gainsborough Toward Art

Two members of Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child. Without their deaths, it's possible that he may never have had the chance to study painting.

Announcement

Vermont College of Fine Arts Supports Visual Artists with New Distinguished Artist Award

The award reflects the College’s continued support of diverse students from a variety of cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Books

Luminous Summer Scenes from Local American Fairs

Photographer Pamela Littky spent the summer of 2015 driving thousands of miles through 15 states to capture the American fair.

Art

The Soviet Art School that Cemented Suprematism’s Spot in History

For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People's Art School in modern-day Belarus.

Community

A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.

Announcement

Maine College of Art Presents Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks and Pathways

The exhibition challenges the idea that migration is an exception or a crisis, showing viewers that migration is now the norm, inscribed in our landscapes, memories, bodies, and imaginings.

Art

Disturbing Portraits of Girls Who Murdered Their Mothers Resist Moral Takeaways

Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls’ actions or to vilify them.