Art
Accessibility Takes Center Stage in a Fashion Show
Mode Brut at the Museum of Craft and Design wants to change people’s perceptions of what fashion can be.
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Books
Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
Books
What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens
It turns out that making a dish and making a work of art have a fair amount in common.
News
Important "Arts and Crafts" Architecture Archive Gifted to the Huntington Library
The gift will allow the institution to incorporate the Greene brothers' archives into its online systems to make it searchable online.
Art
Met Museum Reimagines the Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism
From Njideka Akunyili Crosby to Elizabeth Catlett, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room integrates works by Black creators from the past to the present.
Books
Reflecting on the Glamorous, Political, and Artistic Covers of Ebony Magazine
The pages of the popular magazine not only instilled pride in Black communities, but also documented and contextualized their realities.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Bored Yacht Club's NFT millions, fry bread, new space race capitalism, the legacy of Nazi art, and more.
Opportunities
Opportunities in November 2021
From support grants and open calls to a number of residencies and fellowships for artists and art historians, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for each month.
Art
Lennart Anderson’s Blindness and Vision
The artist, who had macular degeneration, closely scrutinized his subjects, even as he fictionalized them.
Art
Folk Artists in India Get a New Global Platform
The Gondwana Art Project elevates and upskills tribal and folk artisans in India who practice traditional Indian art forms.
Film
Princess Diana’s Return to the Pop Culture Spotlight
The ‘People’s Princess’ features in multiple documentaries, trendy fashion lines, prestige TV, and now a biopic starring Kristen Stewart. What’s behind the new Diana mania?
Film
The Automotive-Erotic Body Horror of Titane
What’s more natural, the film seems to ask — the “body parts” under the hood of a car or those pulsing beneath a woman’s navel?