Art
Required Reading
This week, the origins of art materials, challenging college legacy admissions, the problem with Goodreads, and Agnes Martin in the age of Google Sheets.
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News
Row Over “Anti-Monument” in Mexico Ends in Victory for Feminist Activists
Local government has agreed to let a guerrilla artwork honoring Mexico's femicide victims stand in the place of a dismantled Christopher Columbus statue.
Art
The Stitch Artist Helping Combat Media Fatigue
Diana Weymar collaborated with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to center the work of writers tackling economic and racial justice — using embroidery.
Art
Dancing Our Way Past the Anthropocene
The Oi! Spotlight artists accept that ecology has deteriorated, but rather than ask viewers to reverse human action, they depict ways of adapting in the future.
Art
The Renewed Urgency of Ernest Withers's Photographs
In Opa-locka, Florida, an exhibition of Withers’s civil rights images demonstrates that the Black history the state is trying to erase is indisputable and factual.
News
Nancy Yao Will Not Lead Women's History Museum
Yao has “withdrawn” from her role as director of the new Smithsonian museum amid an investigation of her conduct as the former leader of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America.
Opportunities
Opportunities in July 2023
From residencies, fellowships, and workshops to grants, open calls, and commissions, our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
News
London's V&A Museum Criticized for Removing LGBTQ+ Materials
Advocates are asking the museum to reinstate two books aimed at LGBTQ+ youth and a poster that reads “Some people are Trans. Get over it!”
Opinion
Affirmative Action and the Art World’s White Elites
The Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions is indicative of a larger problem that also plagues the art world.
Art
Six Times Right-Wing Groups Went After Artists
Throughout history, conservatives have consistently targeted artists creating works outside of their agenda.
Art
The Jewish Museum’s Sanitized History of an Opium Dynasty
With The Sassoons, the Manhattan museum missed an opportunity to look more critically at the family’s opium trade, and to delve into the lives of its women.
News
Starchitect David Adjaye Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Adjaye is no longer working on the UK Holocaust Memorial after three former female employees came forward with allegations, which the architect denies.