Art
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
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Announcement
Stamps Gallery Presents: Taking a Stand
Bringing together lively and energetic work, Taking a Stand (Jan 17-Feb 29) highlights the ways in which artists build solidarity and shape contemporary culture as active participants in our society.
In Brief
How the Legal System Left Artist Purvis Young's Beneficiaries Empty-Handed
Young left nearly 2,000 works of art to his close friend and her family. An article in the Washington Post Magazine explains how, after Young’s death, a group of lawyers kept the works instead.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Art
Volunteering With a Land Artist to Make Laborious, Ethereal "Snow Drawings"
The impermanence of Simon Beck's land art, which cuts beautiful and massive patterns into fresh snowfall, made the experience all the more gratifying.
News
Center for Art Law in New York Launches an Immigration Clinic for Visual Artists
The clinic will provide $10 consultation sessions to guide international artists through the laborious process of obtaining an artist visa to the United States.
Announcement
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Presents The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades
A retrospective charts the trajectory of an unsung feminist artist, whose radical performances and psychically-charged sculptures invoke the Divine.
Art
Targeting Iran’s Cultural Heritage Means Targeting Human Beings
Targeting Iranian cultural heritage is first and foremost bad because of the devastating effects it would have on Iranians. We in the rest of the world may feel a real loss, but that is secondary at best.
News
Week in Review: Trump Threatens Iran's Cultural Heritage, Workers at the Shed Petition to Unionize
Also, Amanda Schmitt’s lawsuit against Artforum moves forward, Paris Musées is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks online, and more.
Books
A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter
The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.
Announcement
Call for Applications: CalArts Summer Art Residency in Partnership with Hauser & Wirth
California Institute of the Arts brings back its five-week summer residency with visiting artists Dena Yago, Rachel Yezbick, and American Artist.
Art
60 Years of Posters Celebrating the Cuban Revolution
Despite the contradictions of the Cuban Revolution, the posters on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts suggest that, on paper, artists had freedom to express their optimism and support.