Opinion
Why We Need the Getty's Multicultural Internship Program
There's a saying: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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Art
Paintings that Set Letters and Language Free
The poet James Schuyler once described the tidal influence that the New York art world had on the poetry he and his friends were writing as "floods of paint in whose crashing surf we all scramble."
Announcement
Sierra Nevada College's MFA-IA Program Hosts Steve Lambert’s ‘Co-op Bar’ This Summer
Sierra Nevada College’s Low-Residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program proudly presents artist Steve Lambert as he creates a new installation for SNC’s Garage Door Gallery during the upcoming MFA-IA Summer Residency 2016 at Lake Tahoe.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTMzNDMyLCJhdCI6MjAsI
In Brief
In France and Japan, Trains Now Bring the Art to You
Japan's major passenger railway company JR East has just launched what officials call "the world's fastest art experience" with a traveling art gallery aboard one of its bullet trains, or shinkansen.
Art
The Flattering Tricks of 19th-Century Portraiture
For the wealthy 19th-century elite, a portrait rendered by a respected artist was a signifier of status — an oversized and ostentatious calling card.
Art
Seeing with the Body at a Virtual-Reality Art Show
In the largely uncharted technology of virtual reality, artists must invent the medium as they engage with it.
Art
An Icon of Midcentury Organic Modern Architecture Is Destroyed
A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.
Art
Artist Skewers Inequality by Stealing Forks Used by the 1%
Greenish grime coats the prongs of a silver fork that Prince Harry used at a banquet in 2013.
Art
Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
Art
A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
Announcement
Creative Exchange Mobilizes Artists to Solve Local Challenges with Stories and Free Toolkits
Creative Exchange celebrates artists and their creative power to shape communities, reimagine what is possible and move social justice forward with a new collection of features and stories, Field Notes from Creative Exchange.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTE2OTUxLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6
Art
Mapping Gentrification and Urban Resistance in Istanbul
ROME — "Urbanization has always been a class phenomenon of some sort," David Harvey writes in Rebel Cities.