Art
Kamoda Shōji, One of Japan’s Most Celebrated Ceramic Artists
Early on, Kamoda’s exhibitions were met with crowds who lined up around the block to see his elegant, elusive works.
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Art
Francesca Fuchs Tenderly Renders the Small and Private
Fuchs’s quiet paintings and ceramics pay tribute to the small, private objects that accompany us through life and ultimately anchor us in time.
Opinion
An Artist-centered NFT Platform?
There are art platforms that want to use NFTs to empower digital and new media artists rather than focusing just on the market.
Film
Jeen-Yuhs Knows That Kanye West Isn’t a Riddle That Can be Solved
The gargantuan three-part documentary follows the famous, controversial rapper for 20 years, capturing his brilliance and contradictions.
Books
Searching for a More Inclusive History of Ornament
While the ancient art form of ornament often contains deep meaning, European modernist theory attempted to erase ornament from the design world.
News
Tate Britain Will Commission Artist to “Critically Engage” With Racist Mural
Critics have long called for the mural, which depicts bound Black enslaved people, to be removed from the museum’s former restaurant.
News
The Search for Artifacts Aboard Clotilda, the Last American Slave Ship
A team of archaeologists is hoping to recover barrels, casks, bags, and even DNA traces of enslaved people.
News
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.5M Grant to Document Indigenous Enslavement
Researchers will spend the next three years engaging with descendants, gathering records, and digitizing them.
News
Prehistoric Drum Found in Child's Grave Dubbed “Most Important” Finding in a Century
But the discovery was drowned out by the drumbeat of protest against the British Museum following new revelations about its ties to a fossil fuel company.
Art
Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook
Hilton Als’s collection of materials, art, and ephemera isn’t meant to elucidate Morrison’s work but ponder the novelist’s impact on American culture.
Opinion
An Unlikely Pair Doing the Work of Repatriating Indian Heritage
Recently, Art Recovery International and India Pride Project have collaborated to successfully recover and return priceless cultural objects stolen from India.
News
How Hallucinogens Were Used as an Ancient Political Tactic
Excavation at a site in the southern Peruvian town of Quilcapampa uncovered artifacts related to hallucinogenic beverages.