News
Emmett Till’s Chicago Home Is Now a Historic Landmark
By designating the home as an official landmark, the city commits to protecting the structure from demolition and any significant renovations.
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Art
When Nick Cave’s Truth Was Told in Kinderhook, New York
A local zoning appeals board hearing will soon decide whether Cave’s colossal textual work, “Truth Be Told,” is art protected by the First Amendment, or rather a sign that may be regulated by law.
Announcement
Apply for Rent-free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
The program awards rent-free studios to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in Brooklyn, New York. Applications are due February 15.
Opinion
For Feminist Artists, Recognition Often Comes Too Late
For the last 30 years, Alexandra Juhasz has interviewed members of her own art and art activist communities about why deserved recognition often comes too late for feminist artists.
News
The Influential Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend Are Now on Etsy
Each shop features the quilter’s story and their array of offerings, with prices on works that range from $27 to $5,500 per piece.
Film
Alvin Ailey, the Icon and Enigma
Much as the documentary Ailey delights and inspires, it also evokes a sense of wistfulness by privileging the choreographer’s public persona at the expense of Alvin the man.
Art
Required Reading
* Earlier this month Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein wrote about the creative class and how eulogies may be premature: While this system produces culture, no one is paid enough, and the rent climbs ever upward. I once worked an art fair with a kindly but grizzled art handler who told me that
Books
Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets
The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living.
Art
Drawings of Migration and Pandemic
In her dozens of pastels on handmade paper, Mie Yim seems to start each one over, never attempting to make a variation on a theme.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Powerful Challenge
Sultan’s works implicitly reject the corporate scale of the Minimalists in favor of a domestic and intimate space
Art
Beer With a Painter: Chie Fueki
“I am interested in the symbols that are flooding our world, which everybody can recognize, but which have almost no meaning.”
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Since the start of the pandemic I’ve hung onto fleeting moments of beauty.”