Announcement
Open Call: In Out Festival 2017 at the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art
This year, the Laznia Center invites artists to enter the contest by submitting Experiments / Video / Documents / Animations with the theme, 'word/image.'
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Art
An Online Exhibition Asks: What Makes "The Goldfinch" So Special?
The Mauritshuis museum in the Hague created an online exhibition that reveals the hidden history of one of its most popular paintings, Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch" (1654).
News
Artist and Curator Ingrid LaFleur Is Running for Mayor of Detroit
LaFleur is a native Detroiter who traveled and worked in the wider contemporary art world for over a decade, before returning to apply what she’d learned to her hometown.
Art
An Indonesian Artist Paints Fundamentalists as Buffoons and Monkeys
Agus Suwage’s deeply personal works never stop questioning and working to upend oppression.
Art
The Brooklyn Museum Looks at Georgia O’Keeffe's Style
Opening March 3, the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern examines how the artist expressed her persona through fashion and photography.
Art
A James Baldwin Documentary Raises Questions About America that May Never Be Answered
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.
Comics
This Painting Took Me a Year
Art can be seasonal.
Art
A Magazine Named for a Visa Gathers the Work of Foreign Artists in the US
Artist Jenny Hung's O1 magazine makes visible the labyrinthine and costly process of applying for an O-1 visa.
Interview
“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art
The Canadian artist Lorna Mills talks about image circulation, digital ownership, and how she obsessively mines the internet for her art.
Books
The Biodiversity of the World Captured in Five Centuries of Animal Art
Charlotte Sleigh's book The Paper Zoo explores 500 years of scientific animal illustration as seen in the collections of the British Library.
Art
Fixed on Bodies at the Moving Image Art Fair
Despite a new section devoted to virtual reality, the strongest trend running through the 2017 fair is work grounded in the body and its place in society.
Interview
The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness
In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.