University of California’s Berkeley Campus has reported a sharp increase in students enrolling in arts and humanities majors in the last decade.
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Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2025
This fully-funded, three-year graduate program in Southern New England culminates with an exhibition in an NYC gallery and an on-campus thesis exhibition.
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Connecticut Museum Accused of Censorship After Removing an “Inappropriate” Video
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum said it took down Rebecca Goyette’s video installation because it was “disturbing” for children, adding that it received a state-issued grant to waive youth admission fees.
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Eye Contact Fires Up Brain Cells, Yale Study Says
The researchers found that when eyes meet, certain areas of the brain start experiencing “neural firing.”
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Is Touching Sculpture Sexier After Zoom Fatigue?
The sensation of touching isn’t the point. It’s the yearning — heightened during quarantines — that lives on in these sculptures.
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Artists and Curators Can Apply to NXTHVN’s Mentorship-driven Fellowship Program
Each fellow in this 10-month intensive in New Haven, Connecticut, will receive studio or office space, subsidized housing, and a generous stipend.
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Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2024
This fully-funded three-year graduate program in Southern New England supports a broad range of art making, exemplified by the work of its newest students.
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A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
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Patrick Nagatani: Chain Reaction Opens at the Bruce Museum
The Japanese-American photographer’s entire Nuclear Enchantment series is on view at the Connecticut museum through October 10.
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What We Can Learn From a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence
John Wilson’s 1952 mural “The Incident,” is a salient meditation on the horrors of lynching and though physically lost, the mural endures in archival images, preliminary sketches, and studies.
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William Benton Museum of Art Presents the 2020 UConn MFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
Tideland features Elizabeth Ellenwood, Chad Uehlein, Shadia Heenan Nilforoush, and Olivia Baldwin. Their work can be viewed online through July 19.
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Yale Center for British Art Presents Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement
In this exhibition, radical Victorian artists and designers question industrialization and strive to create a more beautiful, ethical world. On view through May 10.