News
Under Munch's Risqué Madonna Is a More Subdued Version, Researchers Find
The National Museum of Norway announced the discovery of underdrawings hidden beneath the surface of their Edvard Munch painting, "Madonna."
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LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum Will Share 200 Photographs by European Women Artists
The joint gift features photographs by a mix of well-known and emerging artists, including Yto Barrada and Eva Koťátková.
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Tania Bruguera Agreed to Leave Cuba in Exchange for Release of 25 Prisoners
The artist also called for a boycott of the Havana Biennial.
Art
The Democracy of Abstraction
Thomas Nozkowski believed that each person’s experience of the everyday was fundamentally unique and set out to honor that in his work.
Art
Searching for Frans Hals’s “Laughing Cavalier”
So many of us have seen this painting too often in reproduction, without perhaps ever having really seen it at all.
Art
A Final Show Honors the Legacy of a Bay Area Art Legend
Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”
Books
Why the Hell We Are Obsessed with Hell
Hell Hath No Fury provides fundamental clues as to why it seems that we cannot escape reincarnations of hell in either Dante or on Netflix.
Books
Robert Vas Dias’s Words Explore the Fact of Things
In a hybrid text combining criticism and poems Robert Vas Dias explores the paradoxes of still life painting.
Film
Film Reels Dredged from the Sea Become an Eerie Meditation on Mortality
Bill Morrison’s new documentary The Village Detective: A Song Cycle is an eerie meditation on mortality made from forgotten parts of cinema history.
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Indigenous Artists Voice Support for Land Restitution in New Billboard Campaign
Through 20 billboards across North America, LANDBACK.Art Campaign asks: “What does land back mean to you?”
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Controversial Roosevelt Monument Doused in Red Paint at American Museum of Natural History
More than a year after the Manhattan museum promised to remove the long-disputed statue, it still stands.
Opportunities
Opportunities in October 2021
From residencies for artists and nonprofit organizations to open calls for art and writing, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month.