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.
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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.
Opinion
How Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of Hell
Bosch was the inventor of the modern Western imagining of the demonic while transcending that tradition — all because of bad weather and moldy bread.
Film
Amidst Renovations, the Chelsea Hotel Dreams of Its Old Self
The documentary Dreaming Walls contrasts the New York icon’s glory days with the current residents’ struggle to preserve the building.
News
After Super Bowl Loss, Cincinnati Museum Sends Painting to Los Angeles
The Cincinnati Art Museum will lend the Huntington in Los Angeles a Robert Henri painting after the Rams defeated the Bengals.