Film
In 1970, the Original Cast of Company Went Through Hell to Record Their Album
Despite being out of circulation, the 1970 behind-the-scenes Broadway documentary Original Cast Album: Company remains revered by both film and theater fans.
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Art
Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices Through Landscape Painting
Eddie Arroyo decidedly updates the genre of American landscape painting, recording real-estate developments and gentrification and capturing the flux of contemporary urban landscapes.
News
Redesigned New York License Plates Will Still Be Made by Prison Labor
| A spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) confirmed to Gothamist that the new state license plates will be produced by incarcerated individuals earning 65 cents an hour. Senator Zellnor Myrie (D) told Gothamist that, "We like to call ourselves the progressi
Art
Artworks About Place Struggle Within the Confines of a Museum
Landlord Colors at Cranbrook Art Museum tries to “elevate” art borne of economic hardship and upheavals, but such art needs no elevation; the viewer must seek and find its level.
Art
The Spurious Progressivism of Spanish Colonial Art
Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain’s golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire’s art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.
In Brief
Those Photos of the Amazon Burning? Not All of Them Are Real.
A number of viral photographs claiming to depict the fire devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have been misattributed.
Announcement
Join SVA's Division of Continuing Education for Courses Starting September 18
Courses are available in a variety of subjects ranging from design, illustration and cartoon, photography and more.
Art
A Poetic Feast Conjures Familial Immigrant Histories
Rather than being haunted by the past, Jane Wong views “going toward the ghost” as a method of reclaiming her family’s silenced histories.
News
A Grandfather Illustrates His Grandchildren's Childhoods With a Moving Instagram Account
Chan Jae Lee (Grandpa Chan) started his simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming account Drawings for my Grandchildren to document the rapid growth of his grandchildren.
Comics
Save Your Ideas From Burning on the Back Burner
Finish that project before it burns to a crisp.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the 1619 project, personal book curators, corporate America’s ‘Elite Charade,' Epstein's intellectual enabler, hand embroidered animation, and more.
Art
N. C. Wyeth's Artistic Aspirations
Illustration provided Wyeth a very comfortable living, but did not satisfy his deep ambition to be taken seriously in the art world.