Art
Looking Back on the Art and Media of 1919, the Year World War I Ended
The Huntington Library is exhibiting 250 of its objects that were made, edited, or acquired in 1919.
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Announcement
Visit the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts' Open Studios, October 17–19, 2019
This annual event invites the public to come explore and interact with EFA member artists in the intimate setting of their studios.
News
Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt
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The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum
In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.
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A Historic Conceptual Art Group Has Taken Over a French Château
For the last few years, the Château de Montsoreau has been home to one of the most significant museums of contemporary art outside of Paris.
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The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist
Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.
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Susan Roth: BLACK IS A COLOR, on View at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery
The 14 acrylic paintings exhibited in this show trace her unique approach to the shaping of the canvas as it responds to the compositional elements within. On view through March 13, 2020.
Film
Reimagining Cinema from Nature's Perspective
The "Animistic Apparatus" program at this year's Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival explored the natural world as a potential audience.
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In Shanghai, Carving Out a Space for Critiques of Consumerism
At the TANK Art Festival, the line between art and product became ambiguous, though it was probably artificial to begin with.
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The VCUarts Community's Interdisciplinary Breakthroughs in the Arts and Research
Students and faculty lead creative projects and discoveries that connect the arts to health care, community justice, computer science, and more.
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Peruvian Artists of Chinese Descent Shed Light on a Long History of Migration
“Chinese migrants arriving in the 19th century didn’t speak Spanish — had no knowledge of the language — and found themselves in an adverse environment,” curator Marco Loo tells Hyperallergic.
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Required Reading
This week, a history of Porgy and Bess, talking to Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald, and Lorna Simpson, history of the Art Institute of Chicago's lions, otters chasing a butterfly, and more.