Art

The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

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The Legacy of a Pioneering Subway Artist Lives On in a Final Art Book

PHASE 2 would emerge as an innovator in New York’s burgeoning subway art movement, creating elaborate murals that would shape the evolution of both the spray can and the art form.

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A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado

While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.

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Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian

The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.

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Programming Language Design as Art

Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, "esolangs" serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.

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The Cass Corridor Movement's Salvation Through Salvage

Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.

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How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s

Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.

News

Here Are the 63 Artists In This Year's Whitney Biennial

This year’s show is the first since a tumultuous 2019 edition rocked by protests over former trustee Warren B. Kanders's connections to tear gas manufacturing.

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Announcement

Experience Jana Winderen’s The Art of Listening: Under Water at Columbia University

Featuring underwater recordings from around the world, this immersive, site-specific installation is on view at the Lenfest Center for the Arts in NYC from February 3 to 13.

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Announcement

BRIClab Residency Applications Open for NYC Visual Artists, Performers, and Media Makers

BRIC’s multidisciplinary program in Brooklyn has cohorts in Contemporary Art, Film & TV, Performing Arts, and Video Art. Applications are due March 10.

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Announcement

Virginia Commonwealth University Is Accepting MFA Applications for 2022

All students are eligible for funding, teaching assistant opportunities, and research and travel grants. Apply by February 1.

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Subtle and Finessed Depictions at the Master Drawings Fair

The close, careful, and subtle observation I found this year is representative of precisely why I continue to gravitate to this fair.