News
A Quarter of Wyoming's Rock Art Has Been Vandalized, Report Finds
The state is home to hundreds of Indigenous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back centuries.
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Film
Can Archaeologists Locate Pompeii’s Survivors?
The second episode of Pompeii: The New Dig follows the search for those who escaped Mount Vesuvius’s lethal eruption.
Art
UCI MFAs Challenge Institutional Display
The inquiries of three recent MFA graduates illuminate what much of the art world, easily seduced by decorative abstraction, misses.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I very rarely invite people in, particularly when I'm working. It's a little like walking into my brain.”
News
New Kate Middleton Portrait Gets Dragged by the Internet
It’s tough times out there for royal portraitists, and this less-realistic visage of the new People’s Princess stood no chance of being well-received.
Art
Peeling Back the Layers of Religious Devotion
The artists in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art offer complex perspectives on religion grounded in their lived experiences.
Art
New York Studio School MFAs Get Serious
The artists in this year’s MFA thesis exhibition have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of this moment.
Opinion
In Defense of Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles Portrait
Just like Velázquez’s last portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, Yeo’s blood-red painting signifies the imminent downfall of a monarch.
News
Have Pro-Palestine Artworks Been Censored in Your State?
An online map by the National Coalition Against Censorship tracks artists who have faced professional consequences for “invoking Israel or Palestine.”
News
Hundreds of Artists Rally for Increased Culture Funding in Montreal
Artists and cultural laborers live in "unsustainable precariousness," according to advocates pushing Quebec’s Minister of Culture for more support.
News
Flemish Renaissance Painting of Virgin and Child Kissing Heads to Auction
The restoration of Quinten Massys’s “Madonna of the Cherries” reveals exquisite details of an endearing (and maaaybe a little creepy) family moment.
Art
Remembering the Rebellious Spirit of Joe Zucker
More than any other artist of his generation, Zucker rejected the conventions associated with Abstract Expressionism, particularly its subjectivity.