Announcement

At Nomad/9 MFA, Holistic Pedagogy Prepares Students for the New Economy

An accredited MFA that leaves the white cube, bringing together social engagement and ecology at sites throughout the Americas.

Comics

Where Do You Keep Your Rembrandts?

Storage vaults and private museums are nice and all, but keeping art under your pillow means it's always within reach.

In Brief

Your Bus Ride Is a Battleground: Barbara Kruger Designed NYC MetroCards

The artist created two designs emblazoned with her trademark white-on-red text, posing difficult questions to New York's straphangers.

Art

Updating Ukiyo-Prints and Medieval Art with Allusions to Fast Food and US Politics

An exhibition at the Koa Gallery in Honolulu presents a retrospective of Masami Teraoka, whose art has combined critiques of contemporary society with pop culture iconography for over half a century.

Announcement

At BAMPFA, Two Artists’ Intimate Observations of Lives and Loss

Sometimes the slowed-down processes of painting and drawing reveal far more than the click of a shutter.

News

Over 1,800 Artists and Art Workers Sign Letter Against Sexual Harassment [UPDATE 2]

The public letter criticizes "an art world that upholds inherited power structures at the cost of ethical behavior."

Art

The Istanbul Biennial Examines the Tricky Question of What Makes a “Good Neighbor”

Dealing with themes of surveillance, personal and shared space, and what defines home in film, installation, and more.

Art

Chicago’s Plan for Sick Trees: Turn Them into Art

Artists turn trees devastated by a pest into works of public art, calling attention to the problem and creating opportunities for unexpected artistic encounters across the city.

Art

Required Reading

This week, an underground restaurant, political lives of medieval manuscripts, the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Harold Pinter's catty side, and more.

Music

Case Studies in Musical Hooks: Father John Misty, Galantis, Ed Sheeran, Ashik Reza

Craft in itself means nothing unless it reaches total flawlessness.

Art

Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York

Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.

Art

A Cerebral Portraitist‘s Unaccountable Neglect

In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus’s conceptual approach to portraiture.