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Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
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Donated Hans Hofmann Painting to Fund Social Justice Scholarship at Bennington College
The work, donated by TV and film writer and producer Norman Lear, will be sold to benefit the college’s “Art for Access” program.
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Getty Grants $1.3M to Projects That “Unlock Paper’s Material Secrets”
The LA-based foundation will fund a range of initiatives by curators studying prints, drawings, and other forms of graphic art.
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Caption a Kafka Drawing to Win a Copy of Franz Kafka: The Drawings
Judged by Judith Butler and Andreas Kilcher, those who submit the best captions to Yale University Press’s #KafkaCaptionContest will receive copies of this new book.
Opinion
How Ukrainian Folk Art Became a Tool of Resistance Against Russia
Ukrainian people have been using folk art, music, and traditions to resist the war and foster hope.
Art
Making Art in the Shadow of Grief
Erica Green’s textile exhibition Once They Were Red manifests an act of repair through humble materials, but the experience is one of surviving more than mending.
Art
The Cross-Border Work of the Rubin Center’s New Curator
“Artists are the key people who are helping us to think differently and better about not just the future, but the past and the present,” said Laura August, who’s been chosen to lead the Visual Arts center at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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What Documentaries to Catch at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival
This year’s iteration includes titles about AOC, the making of movie sex scenes, and what’s happened to the “stars” of older documentaries.
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The Met Hosts an Exhibition of Employees' Art, Open to the Public for the First Time
More than 450 workers at the museum contributed works to the beloved exhibition, from security guards and technicians to librarians, registrars, and volunteers.
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140+ Documenta Artists and Organizers Denounce “Racist Attacks” Following Vandalism
The German contemporary art show has been plagued by accusations of antisemitism for its inclusion of artists who denounce Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
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Indiana Museum Apologizes for Offering a “Juneteenth Watermelon Salad”
The watermelon is associated with a painful history of racist tropes against Black Americans.
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Celebrate the Art and Science of Edible Plants at Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden’s latest exhibition focuses on how food choices impact our world and features special picnic tables designed by Bronx artists.