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Prison Abolition Art in Florida Removed Under University Pressure

The University of Florida’s off-campus art gallery was vandalized after the school asked its curator to take down banners criticizing the local police department.

Announcement

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Celebrates 27th Edition in Toronto

The 2023 festival includes public art by Genesis Báez, Seif Kousmate, and Hélène Amouzou visualizing intersections of land, migration, and imagination.

Film

MTV’s The Exhibit Was a Ratings Flop

Compared to predecessors like Bravo’s 2012 "Gallery Girls," the art world reality TV show tanked.

Interview

Can You Buy the Time of a Political Prisoner?

Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who remains behind bars at the Guanajay maximum security prison, talks to Claudia Genlui Hidalgo about his latest — and unconventional — project.

Film

Internet Perplexed by Netflix’s Black Cleopatra

Critics say producer Jada Pinkett Smith and the streaming platform should center the stories of historical Black women instead of rewriting history.

News

NYPD Arrests Artist Painting Message of Support for Unhoused Man

Helena Münninghoff, a formerly unhoused resident of the East Village, was arrested for painting a call for help for her friend on a construction fence.

Art

Can We Ever Get Closer to Vermeer?

Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside.

Books

The Stories of Art History's Detectives

The provenance researcher must be a detective, figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are often unwilling to disclose.