Performance
A Play on the Usual Underground Railroad Story
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
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Announcement
VCUarts Department of Sculpture + Extended Media Announces New Faculty: Irvin Morazan and Massa Lemu
Morazan and Lemu join VCUarts Sculpture + Extended Media faculty members Corin Hewitt, Michael Jones McKean, Kendall Buster, Carlton Newton and Matt King.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjEyMTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0ODk3MDcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzQwOTI5LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjIwNjY
Opinion
The Potency of a Kitschy Picabia Nude
The artist’s “Nu de Do” makes a blue-chip, cock-rock show at Gagosian Gallery worthwhile.
Art
Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.
Film
An Animated Glimpse of Hokusai's Life Through His Daughter's Eyes
A new animated biopic offers insight into the career and work of Hokusai through the life of his daughter, a fellow artist in Edo-era Japan.
News
Researchers Restore First Recording of Computer Music, Made in Alan Turing’s Lab
The 1951 recording of three songs played on Turing's computer has been restored to its intended sound.
Art
Considering the Environmental Damage Done by Art Fairs
Built with the collected detritus of art fairs, The Fair Housing Project illustrates just how much good material is thrown away once the tents fall.
Art
An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language
Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. 'My Grandmother's Lingo' is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.
Art
A Warehouse Haunted by American Political Horrors
Doomocracy, artist Pedro Reyes's new project for Creative Time, is part haunted house and part immersive theater.
Art
How Cold War Politics Sabotaged Norman Rockwell’s Art
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum tracking the drop and resurgence in popularity of narrative art raises much bigger questions than it set out to address.
Announcement
How One River School of Art + Design Is Transforming Education
Lets face it, Art Education is broken in America. Fixing it has become the personal mission of Matt Ross, the Founder of One River School of Art + Design.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTA5MjksImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0Njg1MjYsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzQ0NDc5LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjIwNzA
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week the Hammer Museum hosts a retrospective of the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the California African American Museum throws an opening party for several new exhibitions, artists transform a project space into a freaky and funky haunted house, and more.