Art

An App that Lets Blind People Experience the Solar Eclipse

A new, free mobile app allows the blind and visually impaired to witness the eclipse through sound and touch.

News

Queens Museum Cancels, Then Reinstates Israel-Sponsored Event After Accusations of Antisemitism

Fallout from the cancellation and reinstating of the event, organized by Israel's ambassador to the UN, raises concerns about how museums might do business in light of recent anti-BDS legislation.

News

Senator Cory Booker Will Introduce Bill to Remove Confederate Statues from US Capitol

A major focus of the legislation will be to remove sculptures of Confederate figures from National Statuary Hall.

Art

Seeking Escape in Paintings of a Childhood Home

In her exhibition at Sargent's Daughters, Brandi Twilley depicts windows as portals beyond the bleak circumstances of her family's house.

News

Members of President’s Arts Committee Resign en Masse in Protest of Trump [UPDATED]

All 17 private members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities published a letter condemning Trump's "hateful rhetoric" after Charlottesville.

Books

The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction

In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.

Art

Reexamining a Pair of Colonial Portraits Reveals One of Boston's Most Prolific Slave Traders

The Peabody Essex Museum has owned the paintings of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Fitch since 1878, but only recently looked into their subjects' part in the transatlantic slave trade.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: cities across the US examined their holdings of Confederate monuments, "Trumpy the Rat" made its debut, and a de Kooning stolen in 1985 was recovered.

Art

The Japanese American Architect Who Was a Disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright

Kaneji Domoto, a little-known architect from the Bay Area, designed five houses for the famous planned community of Usonia.

Film

A Polish Filmmaker Explores Trans Identity Through Abstraction

Wojciech Puś's Endless is loosely based on the life of a trans woman, but it is not about a journey from point A to point B.

News

After Trump Calls Confederate Monuments “Beautiful,” Twitter Responds with Memes

The responses to this drivel came swiftly on Twitter, with people pointing out all the beautiful works of public art that have popped up this year alone, including guerrilla sculptures of a nude Trump.

Art

A Smorgasbord of Spiritualism Centered on Fantastical Coffins

Jack Shainman’s summer show, spread across galleries in Chelsea and Kinderhook, NY, effectively encourages existential reckoning.