Art
Rare Film Footage of Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1930s Paris
Tanner avoided the cameras for much of his life, but a new documentary on Black American creatives who moved to France finds candid home movie footage of him.
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Books
Buckminster Fuller's Delightfully Idiosyncratic Recipes
Re-issued on the 125th anniversary of his birth, Synergetic Stew is a document of a magical life of heady science matched only by Fuller’s penchant for “light, wild things.”
News
The Laundromat Project Is Moving to Brooklyn for Its 15th Anniversary
Relocating from its two locations in Harlem and the South Bronx, the arts nonprofit will soon open its doors in Bed-Stuy.
News
Honoring Motherhood and the Mundane
Wings of Change, the forthcoming New York debut of Billie Zangewa, will bring together a selection of the artist’s tender silk collages, which revel in Black domestic intimacy.
Art
An Online Archive Tells an Alternate History of US Monuments and Architecture
At the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, a new “living archive” of stories, objects, and photographs expands our understanding of how we might reconfigure our relationship to the present.
News
"Open for Exploitation”: Artists Project Messages on Guggenheim Museum Ahead of Reopening
The artist-activist groups Artists for Workers and the Illuminator organized the projections in solidarity with the Guggenheim’s unionized workers and workers of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Art
Joiri Minaya Isn’t Here to Entertain Your Tropical Fantasies
I’m here to entertain you, but only during my shift flirts with beauty, ecology, and the desire to be seen, without capitulating to the pull of exoticization.
Art
The Boldly Feminine Gaze of Hiba Schahbaz
Schahbaz’s large-scale paintings, on view in her latest exhibition Dreaming, assert the right to claim and occupy space as a woman.
Film
The Anti-Immigrant Ballot Measure That Galvanized California's Latinx Community
187: The Rise of the Latino Vote tells the story of Proposition 187, the 1994 attempt to block undocumented people from public services, and how it was ultimately defeated.
Announcement
The University of Texas at Austin Presents Its Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
The work of 12 recent graduates is featured in _____: Revisited, now on view at UT Austin's Visual Arts Center through November 20, 2020.
Art
What Does 'Home' Mean During the COVID Pandemic?
Home Truths, a new online screening series from Anthology Film Archives, acts as a resource for community information and solidarity.
News
The Happiness Museum Shares Denmark’s Well-being Secrets
According to the United Nation’s annual ranking, Denmark is the world’s second happiest country.