Art

How Freedom Was Aestheticized During the Cold War

The House of World Cultures' exhibition tells the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom's use of an aesthetic of freedom, and contextualizes the lasting legacy of modernism within the geopolitical power struggles of the Cold War.

Art

Entering Two Painters’ Visions of Home

In Home Work, Ann Toebbe and Sarah McEneaney posit two different visions of middle-class domestic space.

Books

The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums

Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.

Art

Glimpses of Our Strange, Painful World at the Untitled Art Fair

Plenty of work at Untitled addresses dystopia, the reclamation of history and identity, and the absurdity of an art market that tries to address these topics.

Art

How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.

Art

Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"

Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.

Art

The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of

Dave Sim's Cerebus, published 40 years ago, has had an enduring, complex influence.

News

Louvre Abu Dhabi Claims They Own Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" [UPDATE 2]

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now claiming it owns the world's most expensive artwork.

Art

The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs

The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: wildfires forced the Getty Center and Skirball Cultural Center to close, the buyer of Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" was revealed, and President Trump drastically reduced the size of two US National Monuments.

Art

A House in Baltimore Tells Stories Across Its Walls, Windows, Towels, and Sheets

Joseph Young's MicroFiction RowHouse consists of short texts and fragments of a fictional family's history playing out across the surfaces of the artist's home.

Announcement

Design Your Own Curriculum in Lesley University’s MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Program

Submit your application to be considered for a merit scholarship.