News
Rampant Social Inequalities Persist in the Arts According to New UK Study
The study reveals that the black and minority ethnic people comprise only 2.7% of the museum, gallery, and library workforce in the UK.
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The Art School Critique Is a Two-Way Street
Some students give their professors feedback by filling out teacher evaluations, others use a paintbrush.
Art
The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India
Chittaprosad, an artist known for his sketches and prints and who documented a famine in the book Hungry Bengal, began his artistic tenure as an illustrator and sketch artist for the Communist Party of India in the early 1940s.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hubble Space Telescope turns 28, IKEA might develop a hotel, democracy vs. the algorithm, is Instagram over, Etel Adnan's color, angry geek culture, and more.
Books
A Philosopher's Journey to the Real
In Journey to the Land of the Real we get a glimpse of the utter foreignness that Victor Segalen experienced in China over a century ago.
Art
Scott Stack Rethinks the Rules of Op Art
A number of Stack’s paintings look as if a storm swept through the repetitive patterns of Op Art, breaking them into shards.
Art
Judy Ledgerwood’s Blunt Celebrations of Female Sexuality
A delicious tension animates Ledgerwood’s combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
Art
Empire of Vampires
Squirming like leeches for the favor of Lord High Bloodsucker, Count Trump.
Art
A Painter's Extraterrestrial Journey Through the Light of Day
In recent decades, living and working in and around Cape Cod, Paul Resika’s imagery has veered between the naturalistic and the mythical.
Music
Fast, Fizzy, Rapturous, and Bloodcurdling: U.S. Girls, Turnstile, Amen Dunes, Sofi Tukker
Four albums aspire to subversion, but delight is disruptive by definition.
Art
Philip Guston's Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
News
Artists and Loft Tenants Protest New York City's Department of Buildings
On Friday afternoon, politicians and loft tenants rallied near City Hall to demand that Mayor de Blasio overhaul the city's Loft Board.