Art
A Biennial in Sharjah Offers Worlds Enough
The latest Sharjah Biennial features over 50 international artists, many of whom have created impressive installations in the Emirate.
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Art
The Mysterious Experiments of Hercules Segers, a 17th-Century Art Radical
The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist.
Announcement
University of Indianapolis Launches New MA Program in Social Practice Art and Creative Placemaking
The intensive, one-year MA welcomes students to immerse their creative practice in Indianapolis, engaging with neighborhoods, nearby towns, and rural areas for collaborative, transformative, transdisciplinary work.
Art
Chronicling Black Women’s Activist Work at the Hammer Museum
A series of talks and events between March 28 and 30, co-presented by the African-American Policy Forum, examines the role of black women and girls in the struggle for civil rights.
Art
Richard Neutra’s Little-Known Modernist House on the Prairie
In 1951, Richard Neutra, the mid-century architect who virtually embodied the California Dream in his sleek, low-slung homes, built an unlikely house in Sioux City, Iowa.
Art
An Artist Measures How Her Face Is Recognized and Monetized
At first, Jillian Mayer's image, in which she meticulously measured the contours of her face, had the effect of an advertisement.
Art
A Virtual Border Wall Displays Art by Immigrants
Art director Maddy Kramer's site "The Most Beautiful Wall" is a digital structure 19,000 miles long that is showing work made by immigrant artists.
Art
Examining How Art Schools Shore Up White Supremacy at SVA
On March 29, panelists will identify how art schools perpetuate the exclusion of artists of color and propose ways to diversify the canon.
Art
Photographs from the World’s Largest Human Decomposition Center
For his series The Washing Away of Wrongs, Robert Shults photographed the forensic research of the world's largest center for studying human remains at Texas State University.
Opinion
Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till
Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.
News
575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress
The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman's work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.
In Brief
Whoopi Weighs in on Emmett Till Painting as Schutz Storm Reaches Daytime TV
The debate over "Open Casket," Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial, was a topic of heated discussion last week during an episode of The View.