Announcement
SCAD Presents Free Lectures, Exhibitions and Performances at deFINE ART 2018
The Savannah College of Art and Design's ninth annual fine art event takes center stage February 20-23, 2018.
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Comics
Top Five Pets of US Presidents
In honor of President's Day, an empirical ranking of the best animal companions of US commanders-in-chief.
Art
How the Arts Can Help Immigrant Communities Through Sanctuary
Tom Finkelpearl, Jeanne van Heeswijk, and Laura Raicovich discussed cultural institutions' responsibilities to the most vulnerable members of their communities during a conversation at the New School.
Art
Artist Michael Rakowitz Reveals the Iraq War's Many Wounds
From war loot to Saddam Hussein's Star Wars obsession, an exhibition at MCA Chicago considers the costs of power and destruction.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Obama portraits, Fortuny in Madrid, the precarious lives of independent curators, slavery at US colleges, the information apocalypse, and more.
Books
Dada’s Holy Grail
Marcel Duchamp’s zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.
Music
Oceans of Sound: Jlin, Relax World, Slowdive, Thundercat
The best background music is also the best full-immersion music.
Art
The Impermanent Sculptures of Robert Grosvenor
Grosvenor shares almost nothing with other sculptors working today: He has not branded his work, nor has he made variations on a theme.
Art
Mothers’ Nightmare
Another walking-anger-management-issue finds a people-killing machine.
Art
Judith Bernstein Shines a Blacklight on Trump's Crimes
We cannot ignore the fact that Americans voted for Trump.
Art
Luisa Rabbia’s Tiny Marks and Big Mysteries
With her series Love-Birth-Death, Rabbia addresses some of humanity’s most enduring, universal enigmas.
Film
50 Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Whether This Film Is Fact or Fiction
In his 1968 film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, William Greaves turned cinéma verité on itself, never making it clear whether the story was in fact fiction, nonfiction, improvisation, or some combination of the above.