Art

Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art

Snake whisky still life and other stories tackles the stereotyping, misrepresentation, and appropriation of Indigenous cultures.

Art

Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination

Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.

Art

The Figural Ghosts of Oliver Lee Jackson's Expressive Abstraction

Jackson's two-dimensional surfaces lead us into a maze of shapes and visual gestures, yet tease us into recognizing the figures hidden within.

Opinion

Like Elizabeth Holmes, Design Students are Being Taught to Present Optimism over Reality

Many of these MFA design programs are teaching fraud at scale.

Books

Caio Fernando Abreu's Short Stories Charm with Questions of Life and Love

Moldy Strawberries is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, vaulting existential questions across the page while poking fun at the urge to ask them in the first place.

News

500 Years of Drawing the Human Body

A show opening next week at the Getty Research Center plumbs the visual power of anatomical aesthetics.

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Announcement

MOZAIK Philanthropy Launches 2nd Future Art Writers Award

Up to six US art writers will receive $2,000 grants to develop an essay, review, or feature of the art foundation’s virtual exhibition Ecosystem X.

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Announcement

Apply for the Institute of American Indian Arts’s MFA in Indigenous Arts

This low-residency MFA in Studio Arts program provides artists with an Indigenous-focused education that fosters the importance of lifelong learning and outreach.

Art

Art Problems: Is My Art Good Enough?

Are you an artist or arts professional with a burning question you'd like answered? Here's your chance.

Art

The Compelling Curatorial Allure of a Chilean Island and Its Artists

Here I am on this island many thousands of miles away, in pursuit of something that compels me to return over and over again, and to continue dreaming of a truly marvelous future art exhibition that I may never end up organizing.

Art

Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs

Soth's art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.

Art

Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer

Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees.