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Find Your Story at SVA’s MFA Visual Narrative Program
Applications for Summer 2017 are open. Registration is open for an online Q&A session on December 14 and an info session on January 14.
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Art
The Soft Power of Art
As Western Civilization, as we have known it, seems to be unraveling, what are artists to do?
Art
Tiny Tomes from the World's First All-Miniature Bookstore
Tokyo's Lilliput Oval Saloon closed last year and now part its inventory of miniature books, bookshelves, and lecterns is headed to auction.
Opinion
Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest
Public witness can’t really be found in a shout or an insult. It can only be found when we witness an openness between people.
News
Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps
The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.
Interview
A Palestinian Artist Records 17 Versions of a Family Story
Inas Halabi won the AM Qattan Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award for her video featuring different family members telling the story of her grandfather's scar.
Art
In a Show of African Portrait Photography, the Figure Fades Away
The exhibition looks beyond the horizon of defining an African identity, beyond the notion of authentically representing what this identity is supposed to be, as both local and foreign photographers have sought to do.
Art
Lorraine O'Grady Stars in a New Music Video by Anohni
"Marrow" consists simply of O'Grady lip-synching to Anohni's three-minute song of the same title against a black background.
Art
A Tech Collective Sets Up a Sleek Boutique — to Help Visitors Elude Big Data
From the street, The Glass Room may look like another boutique, but inside is an exhibit that makes visible the implications of corporate and government data collection.
Art
Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia's exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, watch a play about Surrealist fistfights, hear a late masterwork from avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, attend a political sign-making workshop, and more.
News
Architects Float Plan to Block Trump Tower Chicago Sign with Golden Pigs
An architecture firm visualizes four gilded pigs floating in the air to conceal Trump Tower Chicago’s 20-foot-tall TRUMP sign as a way to “provide visual relief to the citizens of Chicago.”