Art
In Neelon Crawford’s “Moving Paintings,” the Natural and Manmade Face Off
MoMA’s exhibition Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker is a retrospective of his experimental work documenting machinery, travels in South America, and more.
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Opinion
How Africa’s Cultural Institutions are Leading the Way in Audience Development and Research
Rather than engaging with Africa’s cultural sector through a singular lens, what if the world looked to it as a source of innovation and instruction?
News
In Ceremony, Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The museum and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments entered into a shared agreement to collaborate on mutual loans of Benin objects and other “exchanges of expertise and art.”
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Announcing the Recipients of the 2021 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators
Tahnee Ahtone, La Tanya S. Autry, Dan Cameron, Jeremy Dennis, and Frederica Simmons are the recipients of this year's fellowships.
News
A Landscape Photography Contest Rewards Unique Approaches to the Genre
The photographs that win competitions and go viral, NLPA organizer Matt Payne observed, “have mostly been manipulated in Photoshop to grab your attention and blow you out of the water.”
News
"Discovery of a Lifetime": Rare Tudor Paintings From Elizabeth I's Reign Found Hidden in Medieval Manor
Restorers at Calverley Old Hall in Yorkshire, England are calling the discovery "a time machine to the age of the Reformation."
Art
Why Are so Many Online Shows Phoning It In?
If a digital site is described as an “exhibition” I go to it wanting a visual experience animated by lively and inventive juxtapositions and means of navigation.
Art
The Jewish Immigrant Modernists Who Dreamed a Better Future in Brazil
As Jewish artists fled World War II, some settled in Brazil, where their resilience and desire for renewal shaped their art that looked hopefully to the future.
Art
Genieve Figgis Paints High Society as a Spectacle of Humor and Horror
Figgis's musings on bourgeois decadence feel particularly canny in a time of widespread inequality.
Art
The Emotional Pull of Nature Photos
From a sea lion in Monterey swimming by an N-95 mask to a polar bear in Norway, snuggling down on a small iceberg for the night.
Books
Family Love and Politics in the Age of Trump and Beyond
How do you keep close to loved ones who are on the other side of the political spectrum?
Opinion
When “Art” Dies, the Community Will Thrive
Perhaps museums can’t be museums until we in the community tell them they are that.