Art

Two Public Performances Honor Victims of Japanese Sex Slavery During WWII

At Glendale's Central Park, Yoshiko Shimada and Tomorrow Girls Troop will commemorate this still-festering historical wound.

Announcement

Wellin Museum of Art Celebrates its Fifth Anniversary

Since opening in October 2012, the Wellin Museum of Art has hosted 22 exhibitions and welcomed nearly 60,000 visitors.

Art

Museum Celebrates Hunk of Fat that Nearly Flooded London with Feces

Pieces of the Whitechapel fatberg, which once weighed more than a double-decker bus, are now on view at the Museum of London.

Giveaways

Win Tickets to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall

We are giving away 5 pairs of tickets. Enter to win by Monday, February 19, 2018.

In Brief

Official Obama Portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald Were Just Unveiled

The long-awaited portraits were presented at a ceremony today at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The internet was quick to respond.

Announcement

SculptureCenter Presents Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid and In Practice: Another Echo, on View Through April 2

Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter provides an international forum that connects artists and audiences by presenting exhibitions, commissioning new work, and generating scholarship.

Comics

If Famous Artists Made Valentines Cards

There's an abundance of missed marketing opportunities in these cards.

Art

A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce

The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Ellsworth Kelly's new Texas chapel, visiting the Trump border wall prototypes, woke in Arkansas, whitesplaining the Classics, drones at the Olympics, and more.

Art

An Argentine Collective of Political Art, Re-examined

Alexander Apóstol’s current exhibition at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires doubles as a show of new work by a contemporary conceptual artist and a retrospective of the 1968 events.

Art

Back When Painting Was Dead

When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.

Art

Devin Nunes and His Magical Memo

The art of the indecipherable narrative.