News
African Artists Face “Troubling” Restrictions on Creative Freedom
A new report by PEN America details how artistic freedom in Africa is being suppressed amidst flawed elections, military coups, and political crises.
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Art
Announcing the Recipients of the 2022-23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators
Angelina Lippert, Kelli Morgan, Dakota Noot, Beya Othmani, and Sadaf Padder are the recipients of this year’s fellowship.
Performance
Korean Musical Traditions Meet Greek Tragedy in Trojan Women
Speaking and singing in Korean with English subtitles, the cast leans on the traditional Korean folk storytelling tradition of pansori, and more modern musical accompaniment.
Film
Owen Wilson Is Channeling Bob Ross in New PAINT Film
The story centers on a fictional TV painter who “has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke.”
News
Remembering the Migrant Workers Who Died in Qatar
“Cards of Qatar” features digital collectible FIFA World Cup 2022 cards that help us remember those who built the stadiums.
News
Iranian Artists Decry “Lack of Action” in SFMOMA Protest
An anonymous collective unfurled banners with the words “woman, life, freedom” in an act of solidarity with Iranian protesters and “to keep the message alive.”
News
Layoffs of Senior Staff Throw Canada's National Gallery Into Turmoil
Greg A. Hill, a senior curator of Indigenous art, was among the top officials who lost their jobs.
Books
The Largely Unknown Story of Women, Abstract Expressionism, and Texas
Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle.
Art
Tyrrell Tapaha’s Fresh Approach to Pictorial Navajo Textiles
Diné fiber artist and sixth-generation weaver Tyrrell Tapaha expands lived experience and ideas about the future.
Film
Set in a Lesbian City in the Year 2700, Flaming Ears Is Queer and Campy Fun
For those up for seriously weird, naughty “cyberdyke” mayhem, this movie will likely disturb and delight.
Film
Noriaki Tsuchimoto Transformed Documentary Into an Art of Compassion
Though not well known outside of Japan, Tsuchimoto honed an observational style of filmmaking similar to the cinema verité movement in the US and Europe, but years earlier.
Art
How Leonardo’s “Monstrous” Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature
"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression.