Announcement
Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival
This March, the fifth edition of SAAM’s annual festival features screenings and discussions with filmmakers Alison O’Daniel and Vivienne Dick.
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Announcement
SCAD deFINE ART 2023 Features New Work, Programs With International Contemporary Artists
Mika Rottenberg, Rachel Feinstein, and this year’s honoree Jorge Pardo are among the artists participating in this celebrated event in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia.
Art
A Recent History of Albuquerque’s DIY Galleries
Since the early 2000s, a storefront in the Barelas neighborhood has served as a nexus for the city’s experimental art scene.
Art
Making Mischief in Merry Old England
These rowdy, carnivalesque capers, and all this wild costuming, are about defiant displays of unreason, at odds with the dreary drone of the “voices of authority.”
Art
The Vivid Offerings of Mexican Papier-Mâché
La Cartonería Mexicana is drawn from traditional masks, sculptures, toys, and piñatas.
Art
The Art in America’s Largest Catholic Parish Church
St. Charles Borromeo Church features Mission Revival architecture, murals evocative of a Pixar movie, and nearly an acre of interior space.
News
Metal Detector Hobbyists Get a Museum Show in Denmark
The Hunt for Denmark's Past at the National Museum of Denmark gathers some of amateurs' and hobbyists' most remarkable finds.
Comics
AI, WTF Do You Know About Pain?
Something in this era of AI-generated art feels debased, devalued. That something is me, the artist.
Art
Tender Snapshots of Philadelphia’s LGBTQ History
Selections from the Archives is itself a kind of artwork, a poetic space that opens new modes for seeing and feeling history.
Film
New York’s Trans Sex Workers Tell Their Stories
The Stroll is not just a chronicle of trans life and activism in the 1980s and ’90s, but also of urban “renewal” in the 21st century.
Books
The Preserved Beauty of Italian Island Traditions
Alys Tomlinson traveled between Sardinia, Sicily, and the islands of the Venetian lagoon to document traditional community festivals.
Art
A Day With the NY Sanitation Department’s Resident Artist
sTo Len, whose fascination with waste removal started when he was a child, is the agency’s current artist in residence.