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Applications Now Open for SVA's MFA in Art Writing
The program at SVA offers students the opportunity to bring their language into a complex meeting with the visual arts and the ideas that inform it.
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Art
A Poignant Restaging of a 1978 Italian Performance About Fascism
"Europe Bombarded," by Fabio Mauri, draws on the artist's memories of growing up in Fascist Italy.
News
Artists Create a Cemetery for the Things Donald Trump Killed in 2017
Guerrilla street art collective Indecline staged the gravesite in one of Trump's golf courses. The gravestones mourn the loss of things like "decency" and the American Dream.
Art
Portraits of Breasts that Tell Surprisingly Intimate Stories
Clarity Haynes doesn't give us a face to look at, forcing the eye to find hints of identity in a bitten thumbnail, a tattoo, or a piece of jewelry.
News
Wendell Castle, a Legend of the Furniture and Design Worlds, Dies at 85
Castle was a classically trained craftsman who started making sculptural furniture, broke with traditional techniques, and forged a unique, often-playful aesthetic.
Art
Remembering Jack Whitten's Vision and Conviction
Whitten, an artist often situated in relation to the legacy of Abstract Expressionism but whose work ranged far beyond, died on January 20 at age 78.
Art
The Story Behind Northern India’s Breathtaking, Disappearing Frescoes
The Shekhawati region covers almost 5,000 square miles and hosts an estimated 2,000 frescoed buildings built from the 17th to the early 20th century.
Art
Performances About Learning, Set in a Fictional Classroom
The classroom, which hails from a fictional Swiss art school, is set in the 1970s brutalist performance hall House of the Book.
News
Elizabeth A. Sackler Supports Nan Goldin in Her Campaign Against OxyContin
The cultural philanthropist says she stands in solidarity with those calling on another branch of the Sackler family to answer for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Film
A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys
For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.
In Brief
Non, Merci! French Artists and Cultural Workers Reject Giant Jeff Koons Sculpture
In an open letter, 24 artists, curators, politicians, and more called for the costly and logistically complex project to be scrapped.
Announcement
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Presents La Historia Recordada, an Exhibition of Work by Roberto Diago
Diago tracks a lineage of painterly abstraction and other forms in modern Cuban art, condensing them into a body of work that explores the vestiges of slavery and segregation in contemporary Cuban life.