Film
Filming California’s Oldest Freeway and the Communities It Traverses
Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.
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Art
At Manifesta, Artists Address Italy's Migrant Crisis
This year, Palermo, Italy is hosting the nomadic European art biennale Manifesta, which aims to address the city's ongoing migrant crisis — but is the art on view enough to foment actual social and political change?
Art
Eduardo Carrillo, a Painter Who Took Chicano Art Beyond Identity’s Borders
Carrillo’s paintings re-envision the history of art through the heightened Chicano consciousness of his generation and the richness of his bicultural roots.
Announcement
Social Practice Queens Combines Art and Social Action in Unique Graduate Programs
The low-cost studio-based degree pairs the resources of the Queens College Art Department with the community-based activism of the Queens Museum.
Art
A Preview of Printed Matter's Annual NY Art Book Fair, Featuring 73 First-Time Exhibitors
This weekend, Printed Matter's 13th annual New York Art Books Fair kicks off at MoMA PS1.
News
Artist Allegedly Hung a Putin Portrait in Trump DC Hotel Suite — and It Stayed Up for a Month
Brian Whiteley says no one batted an eye at Putin's likeness hanging in the Pennsylvania Avenue suite. The hotel says it never happened.
Art
A New Curatorial Vision Disrupts Inherited Ideas of Regional Identity in African Art
Laura De Becker's first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.
In Brief
A Mississippi Elementary School Changes Its Name from a Confederate President to Barack Obama, Celebrates with Mural
Charles and Talameika Brice were selected to paint the mural at Obama Magnet, which was named after Confederate president Jefferson Davis until this year.
Announcement
First Major US Exhibition of Artist Ree Morton’s Work in Nearly Four Decades at ICA Philadelphia
Curated by Kate Kraczon, Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison will be on view through December 23, 2018.
Art
Abstractions that Capture the Light and Shadow of an Artist’s Studio
In Juan Iribarren’s paintings, objects are subject to changing climates, seasons, and hours in a day, and the work is a poetic transcription of such atmospheric shifts.
Film
How Capitalist Power Compensates for Racial Oppression in Crazy Rich Asians
Obscene wealth, and its spectacular power to compensate for racial loss, is the central protagonist we are invited to cheer on in Crazy Rich Asians.
Art
A Surrealist Painter Who Collaborated with the Chicago Jazz Scene
The story of how the 20th century artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, was entrenched in the depths of Chicago’s dark, turbulent, discriminatory, social, and political reality.