Interview
Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She's Built with Her Subjects
Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her "relationships with subjects over time."
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Announcement
Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s 2018 MFA Low Residency Thesis Exhibition
The 2018 MFA Low Residency Thesis Exhibition is on view in MassArt’s Design and Media Center from July 30 to August 8, 2018.
Comics
An Artist's Workout
There's that tired old bit about artists being weak and tortured.
Art
Debunking the Myths Around America’s Rise to Power
Sarah Wagner questions the romanticized or elided stories that Americans tell themselves about the forces that built the United States into a world power.
Art
Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Church Built on the Site of Constantine the Great’s Conversion to Christianity
During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new micro-car in Europe, white nationalists misuse ancient history, Joan Jonas in London, a feminist history of food journalism, and more.
Books
A Writer’s Act of Divination
Selah Saterstrom proposes that the act of divinatory reading and the reading of a text are interchangeable, that a text is far more than a sequence of sentences.
Music
An Electropop Take on Romantic Rapture
The grand arc of Sophie’s bewilderingly titled Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides swings through a billion little moments of rapture, with sounds beautiful, ugly, extreme.
Art
The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.
Art
What Would Grandma Do?
I’m glad Grandma never had to hear the President say almost every offensive word, at least once, on national TV.
Art
A Pioneering Thai Artist in America
Tang Chang's first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.
Art
A Pilgrimage to Art Brut’s Austrian Heart
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna.