News
New Painting of Charli XCX Graces Vanity Fair Cover
Artist Issy Wood’s edgy oil portrait captures the party girl’s arched brows and lethal stare with a surreal intimacy.
Announcement
Bruce Museum Presents Moses Ros: HUMAN / NATURE
Bold colors contrast with the absence of color, calling attention to issues around environment loss in this exhibition in Greenwich, Connecticut.
News
School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA
The Fletcher Exhibit of political art was hosted at East Tennessee State University for 11 years until it came under attack from right-wing figures.
Art Review
The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck
I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it.
News
Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration
Fall of Freedom is a new initiative mobilizing the cultural community to lead acts of “creative resistance” against authoritarian forces.
News
Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month
After 16 years in San Francisco, the gallery announced that “it has become too difficult for a gallery this size to scale in this climate.”
News
Ancient Rock Art Rewrites the Arabian Desert’s History
Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Andy Warhol’s autobiography, remembering D’Angelo, unpacking politics and mall architecture in LA, the long history of truffles, the problem with “invasive” species, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“New Mexico light saturates my studio, it snakes across the floor, it permeates the air.”
Guide
Five DC Exhibitions You Can See Despite the Government Shutdown
Even as major museums are shuttered, there’s plenty of great art to see in the nation’s capital right now, from Arab Pop Art to the work of McArthur Binion.
Announcement
Textile Futures: Register for the Virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable
Designers and scholars from around the world will explore pathways toward more responsible fashion practices in this free online program on November 6–7.