Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2016 Miami Art Fairs
There are more than 20 fairs in Miami this week, on top of the rich offerings at the city's museums and private collections. Here's a handy way to make sense of it all.
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Art
The Quintessentially Queer Art of Collage
In Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s latest exhibition, queer artists turn to collage to construct new worlds and identities.
Announcement
MFA and MA in Studio Art at the University at Albany
The Department of Art and Art History at University at Albany is accepting applications for fall 2017. Application Deadline: February 15, 2017.
In Brief
35-Year-Old Brit Crowned World’s Best van Gogh Look-alike
A man named Daniel Baker has won the "I am Vincent" competition launched by artist and writer Douglas Coupland over the summer.
Giveaways
Win Tickets to Day for Night, Houston’s Experiential Arts and Music Festival
Enter our giveaway to win two tickets, airfare, and hotel accommodations for Houston's festival Day for Night, featuring Aphex Twin, Odesza, Björk, and much more.
Announcement
'BRIC Biennial: Volume II' Highlights 40-Plus Artists from Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights Neighborhoods
The BRIC Biennial highlights the significance of Brooklyn as the place where New York artists create work and develop their careers.
Books
Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists' Writings
The new book Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 over-relies on art institutions to vet a very uneven selection of writings by 75 artists.
Art
Digitized Artist Talks from the 20th Century, from Alice Neel to Gordon Parks
The Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker Library is digitizing rare audio from their cultural lecture archives, and offering them to stream on the Internet Archive.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a rainbow in Toledo's Old Masters' galleries, American artists and politics, the failed state of the internet, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Boil
"The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Azra Raza and Sara Suleri Goodyear's 'Ghalib'
While Ghalib's poetry contains the delicate, evanescent moods and divided self-consciousness one associates with periods of decline, it also embodies the opposite, an arrogant rhetorical vehemence and originality that at times calls to mind John Donne more than any of his Western contemporaries.
Art
An Abstract Expressionist Master of Etching
In contrast to other Abstract Expressionists, most notably Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart saw prints as a beginning, a surface to work on. He goes over them with acrylic, gouache, graphite, and ink.