Art
An Artist's Palette Reflects Community and Adversity
Painter Jewel Ham's color choices critique a colorist interpretation of Blackness as being monolithic, lacking a multitude of colors therein.
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Jaclyn Wright’s Blaze Orange Uses Photography to Question the “American West”
An active shooting range prompts artwork about the environment.
Opinion
Seeking Better Ways for the Art Community to Collaborate with Indigenous Communities
Are ecological thinking and decolonial practice merely genres, or are they being used to transform all aspects of arts discourse?
News
Thousands of Etsy Sellers Are Boycotting the Platform Over High Transaction Fees
Sellers are accusing Etsy of "pandemic profiteering" after the company announced a 30% fee increase.
News
Author Sues New York Prisons For Banning Book About the Attica Uprising
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson details the dismal conditions that led over 1,200 incarcerated people to rebel and the legacy of their fight for justice.
News
Tokyo's World-Renowned Capsule Tower Will Be Demolished
After years of disrepair, architect Kisho Kurokawa's iconic building will be disassembled one capsule at a time.
News
Frankenthaler Foundation Provides $2.5M to Support Ukrainian Artists and Cultural Heritage
The funding will also support artists at risk in Belarus, Russia, and other countries.
Announcement
The Anchorage Museum Asks: Can Pandemic Storytelling Help Heal Divided Communities?
The Alaska museum is teaming up with a local writer and newspaper to help its community reconnect in a world changed by COVID.
Art
Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
Art
Shadow Play and the Art of Utako Shindo
Utako Shindo is interested in transitional passages and hinge experiences, or what she calls the “in-between spatiality.”
Art
An Artist's Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat
Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin's elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin.
Art
The Art of Painting Divine Domes
Harout Bastajian has built a career painting calligraphic and geometric designs for the domes of mosques around the world. The results are stunning.