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.

Announcement

Visit the Yale School of Art's MFA Open Studios, April 1–2

The Yale School of Art hosts its annual graduate open studios featuring work from the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.

Art

Pompeii Before the Point-and-Shoot: The Earliest Photographs of Italy

The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.

Comics

Sick of Not Working

Sometimes it's a battle between illness and sanity.