Opportunities
Opportunities in June 2021
From grants to fellowships, residencies, and more, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month.
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News
MoMA Trustee Leon Black Accused of Defamation and Sexual Abuse in Lawsuit
Black did not stand for reelection as chair of the museum’s board following public controversy surrounding his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.
Art
India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art
The graceful art form has a long history, but is currently under threat of disappearing.
Opinion
Who Bears the Steep Costs of Ethnic Fraud?
The issue that gets lost in ethnic fraud cases is how they require the participation of the mostly White cultural and academic institutions who hire them.
Film
Elena Is a Proud Celebration of Haitian Heritage in the Dominican Republic
Michèle Stephenson’s documentary short finds beauty in qualities of Haitian life which the Dominican government scorns.
Books
Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back
Amid the recent wave of art worker unionizing, Sarah Jaffee’s Work Won’t Love you Back offers some instructive takeaways for understanding the trap of that persistent Neoliberal myth: the “labor of love.”
Art
A Plant Concert Blooms in an Abandoned Building
Martin Roth's electronic soundscape shifts as plants grow and sway in a Victorian house in upstate New York.
News
After Five Decades in San Francisco, Two Lintels Repatriated to Thailand
The 1,500-pound lintels from the ninth and 10th centuries hail from protected religious sanctuaries in northeastern Thailand.
Art
Hannah Wilke's and Eva Hesse’s Irreverent Experiments in Abstraction
Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.
Art
Cache of Photos Reveals LA’s Old Chinatown
The intimate photos offer a glimpse at an important but under-documented period in Chinese American history.
Art
Christian Nyampeta Transforms the Guggenheim Into a Anti-Colonial Night School
Though exceptionally accessible, Nyampeta’s exhibition occasionally strikes as too safe, particularly given the context of its installation.
Art
An Exhibition Trembles With Black Spiritualities
Otherwise/Revival traces the contours of Black spiritual thought from Louisiana plantations to Azusa Street to our present moment.