Art

The Lost Art of Library Card Catalogues

The art of writing card catalogue entries may be dying, but they still tell us a lot about our data past.

Announcement

VCFA to Host "Protest Art / Art of Protest Assembly" in August

How do works of art become acts of political discourse? How might artists be at the center of viable, enduring, meaningful resistance and dialogue within their communities?

Art

Photographs Made with the Ocean Capture Its Swirling Rhythms

Despite these works’ affinity with painting, Meghann Riepenhoff shares her method with some of the earliest technical photographs ever made.

Art

The Digital Decline of David Hockney

The epic heights he reached in the 1960s are apparently so magnificent that they have given him a free pass ever since.

Books

100 Years of People Knitting

A book published by Princeton Architectural Press gathers vintage photographs of people knitting, from Sojourner Truth to unidentified nudists.

Art

A Buenos Aires Museum Creates a New Lexicon for Latin American Art

The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has reorganized its permanent collection, assigning a new context for 20th-century Latin American art and its movements.

Art

Documenting Signs of Life Around an Israeli Detention Facility

An exhibition at the Israel Museum brings together the photographs and videos that Ron Amir made over three years in the desert surrounding the Holot Detention Facility.

Art

Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem

Yale University's Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes's collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.

In Brief

The Mess at the Metropolitan Museum Gets Messier

The latest report on dysfunction at the Met reveals "an inappropriate relationship" between outgoing director Thomas P. Campbell and a staff member in the institution's digital department.

News

A Rally at New York City Hall Calls on Trump to Fund the Arts

About 400 people descended upon City Hall today for a "Rally to Save the Arts," demanding that Trump fully fund the very agencies he wants to completely cut.

Art

A Conversation on How Images Help Us Understand Climate Change

On April 4 at the International Center of Photography, a curator, an artist/activist, and a scientist will consider how images can help us understand the urgent reality of global warming.

News

Controversial Dana Schutz Painting Removed from Whitney Biennial Due to Water Leak [UPDATED]

Due to a "mechanical issue," Schutz's controversial painting and works by Maya Stovall and Julien Nguyen have been temporarily deinstalled.