News
The National Galleries of Scotland Is Digitizing Its 94,000-Piece Collection
Since the start of this month, about 40,000 images of works are available on the relaunched NGS website.
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A Small but Steadfast Group of Artists Gathers in NYC to Protest Trump’s Anti-Arts Agenda
The Artists Rise Up protest secured prime art world real estate near Lincoln Center in New York, but drew only a couple dozen passionate protesters.
Announcement
Pratt Presents a Conversation on Public Art in New York City
Join artists and the senior manager of MTA Arts & Design for a discussion on the installations along the new Second Avenue Subway line.
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Looking for a Job in the Arts? Try North Dakota, New Study Suggests
A new report by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the US Department of Commerce tracks the economic impact of the arts nationally and state by state.
Film
The Complicated Legacy of Gertrude Bell, the Englishwoman Who Helped Colonize the Middle East
A new film looks at the life of the female explorer, spy, translator, and archaeologist, who's been largely written out of history.
Art
Drawing on Firsthand Experience to Depict the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina
Dapper Bruce Lafitte's work records a singular personal trajectory in a grander, historically significant moment.
Art
A Collaborative Reading of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” All Across Alabama
Whitman, Alabama presents a pointillistic portrait of the American identity through videos of Alabama residents reading the epic poem.
Art
How the 1960s and ’70s Counterculture Queered Fashion
Counter-Couture at the Museum of Arts and Design offers a new way to think about the legacy of the counterculture movement.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the first house Antoni Gaudí designed will reopen as a museum, the Getty Center was evacuated following a bomb threat, and Scotland’s national art collection was made available online.
Books
Photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond in Its Altered 21st-Century Landscape
From 2010 to 2014, photographer S.B. Walker explored the shores of Walden Pond, where Thoreau's bucolic environment now bustles with recreation and development.
Art
A Punk Take on The Wizard of Oz Screens in a Massive Graffiti Installation
Wastedland 2 ask the existential question “What else is there?” — in this case, referring to anything that isn’t painting, getting high, or sleeping.
News
From a Row of Hammocks to One Million Gravestones: An Art Collective’s Alternative Border Wall Proposals
J.M. Design Studio saw the president's call as an opportunity to challenge visions of a xenophobic future.