Art
Highland Park Artist Helps Her Community Transform Grief Into Action
Jacqueline von Edelberg is "gently curating" an interactive memorial to the victims of the Highland Park mass shooting in Illinois.
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Art
Aubrey Levinthal Chronicles the Estrangement in Everyday Encounters
Finding her subject matter in ordinary, everyday encounters, Levinthal hints at a subject’s interiority and to the way strangers are separated from each other.
Art
Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint
With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution.
Books
Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting to Go It Alone
Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.
News
A Beloved Keith Haring Drawing Will Go on Public View at Bard College
Bard College has announced a $3.2M endowment for the fellowship and the relocation of a mural Haring made on Professor Tom Wolf’s wall.
News
19 Million Pages of Historic Newspapers Digitized by Library of Congress
The Library’s “Chronicling America” initiative has now expanded to include media from all 50 United States, Washington, DC, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Opinion
Should We Be Uncomfortable With Furniture in Art Galleries?
At first, seeing exhibitions incorporating home furnishings worried me, thinking they turn galleries into shops for luxury goods. But this concern is misguided.
Film
Parsley Brings a Haitian-Dominican Massacre to Light
Director José María Cabral’s intention to bring a horrific history front and center is much needed for a massacre that remains a footnote in Dominican society.
Art
The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions
Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.
Art
How Artists in the Southwest are Drawing Attention to Wildfires
“Artists can provide visual stories as points of entry into conversations about the health of forests, and the destructive and healing aspects of fire,” says Saskia Jordá.
Art
Artist Slammed for Matching Instagram Photos to Open-Camera Footage
Critics of the project say artist Dries Depoorter is engaging dangerously with surveillance culture.
News
Toni Morrison In the Spotlight In NY For Banned Books Week
The library is offering Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye for unlimited checkouts through October 31, accessible at in-person locations with a library card as well as online.