Film
A Film Shows a Poignant Vision of Black Life in Hale County, Alabama
In his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross captures the lives of that county's black residents in beautiful and fragmentary complexity.
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News
Court OKs Berkshire Museum Plan to Sell Art by Calder, Bierstadt, Picabia, and Others
Today's ruling in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County clears the way for Sotheby's to auction off over three dozen works from the museum's collection.
Interview
Mira Schor and Susan Bee Discuss the Many Meanings of Art Writing
With Martha Wilson acting as a moderator, Schor and Bee discuss how and why in the 1980s they developed M/E/A/N/I/N/G magazine as a forum for and by artists.
Art
An Urgent Effort to Document New York's LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
The former meeting place of the Gay Liberation Front is slated for demolition — but a group of historian-activists is racing to document sites like it, before they disappear.
Announcement
Apply to the Artist Studios Program at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design
Artists and designers in the six-month residency program receive a studio space and a stipend. Applications are due April 16, 2018, for the August 2018 - January 2019 session.
Film
A Depraved Classic of Adult Anime Returns to the Big Screen
Originally released in the US in 1993 to much puzzlement and shock, a rare 35mm print of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend will screen at Nitehawk.
Art
Seeing the Lives of Immigrants in Objects and Images of Home
Testimony, an exhibition about the lives of Bay Area immigrants, chooses to focus less on trauma and displacement than on the everyday meanings of home.
News
DC's African American History and Culture Museum Is Finally Allowing Walk-In Visitors
This month, the museum is piloting a "Walk-Up Wednesdays" program for first-come, first-served entry once a week.
Art
Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.
Art
The Delights of Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons, in NYC for the First Time
The Frick Collection hosts the North American debut of Francisco de Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a Spanish Golden Age series with mysterious origins.
News
LA's Art Community and Activists React to the Closing of 356 Mission
The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
Art
A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.