Art
America Is Trembling: Jean Genet’s Answer to Donald Trump
Jean Genet believed that money was inherently evil and the quest for power was a form of necrophilia.
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Art
Batman for President and the American Political Imaginary
Batman, we might say, created the space in the American political imaginary for a President Trump.
Performance
Theater of Machines: Rimini Protokoll and CVRTAIN
Two of this year's performance offerings, perhaps inadvertently, highlighted the sometimes awkward and asocial embrace of technology.
Art
Exceeding Capacity
Tiger Strikes Asteroid doesn’t necessarily offer a new way to see art, but the work by Danielle Cartier, Kasey Toomey, Alex Snowden, and Christopher Richard shows the promise of this through collective activity.
Art
The Desire for the Unattainable: Myron Stout’s Paintings and Drawings
Myron Stout, who was born in Denton, Texas, in 1908, made an early decision to be a painter but didn’t hit his stride until the late 1940s, after he had served in World War II.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: galleries and nonprofits participate in the #J20 Art Strike, the president-elect’s transition team reportedly plan to abolish the NEA and the NEH, and a Kickstarter for inauguration day posters raised over $1.3 million.
Art
Considering the Role of University Art Museums on #J20
It is powerfully symbolic for those institutions who decide to close, just as it is powerfully symbolic for other institutions to deliberately choose to remain open.
News
Artists Coordinate a Banner Drop Against Hate for Inauguration Weekend
The facades of dozens of buildings around Philadelphia and Atlanta are now adorned with messages of love, unity, and resilience.
Art
A Performance Artist Makes Space for Silence in an Oversaturated World
Ahead of her performance there, Meredith Monk gave a lecture at the University of Michigan outlining her approach to performance as an opportunity to break out of our chaotic visual culture.
Opinion
Let’s Use the Art Strike to Hold Cultural Institutions Accountable
The action invites us to commit to challenging our institutions to resist Trumpism and combat the conditions that allowed its emergence.
Art
Five Artists, Writers, and Curators Share Their Inauguration Day Plans
Everyone has to make a decision of what they will do that day and these five offered us insight into their plans.
Art
A Floating Noise and Drag Club Celebrates San Francisco’s Lost Underground
The club was concocted by Constance Hockaday and The Lab in conjunction with — and as a subtle resistance to — the first Untitled art fair in San Francisco.