Art
8 Artists to Watch from Bushwick Open Studios 2017
From collections of African textiles and subway station paint chips, to street photography and — of course — colorful figurative paintings, we picked some of our favorites from BOS 2017.
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Announcement
Visual Philosophy at Anita Shapolsky Gallery
The exhibition brings together the work of of Michiko Itatani, Buffie Johnson, William Manning, and Jeanne Miles.
News
Police Raid Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater, Ending Six-Day Occupation
Activists took over the revered theater on Friday to protest the city's accelerating gentrification.
News
After Earthquake, Mexico City’s Art Community Takes Stock of the Damage
Some galleries suffered severe damage, others turned their spaces into relief centers, and the city's biggest art fair came under fire for going ahead with its scheduled VIP opening the night of the quake.
Interview
A Filmmaker Investigates the Racially Charged Murder His Great-Grandfather Committed
Travis Wilkerson speaks about his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, which traces his great-grandfather's killing of an unarmed African-American man.
Comics
An Artist and a Baby
The world changes quickly and so does your perspective of it.
Art
Environmentalists Proclaim Great Pacific Garbage Patch a Country, Design National Identity
Can an island of garbage become a nation? The founders of "Trash Isles" are working to realize their vision and raise awareness about this environmental scourge.
Announcement
apexart's Open Call Invites Proposals for a Thematic Group Exhibition in NYC
No topics are off limits, no ideas are too controversial.
Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
News
Explore the World's Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today
The database's 260,000 catalogue entries, the fruits of 30 years of research, range from modernist synagogues to ancient Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
Art
A Six-Acre Civic Commons Is Coming to Detroit’s North End
The design duo Akoaki and the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm have opened the first phase of an ambitious project known as the Detroit Cultivator.
Books
The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.