Announcement
University at Albany Provides MFA Students With Tuition Waivers and Funding
The affordable, interdisciplinary program with excellent facilities and private studios offers in-person instruction for 2021.
New York
Announcement
Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents Off The Wall
The exhibition features a unique collection of sculptures and paintings by Abstract Expressionists and contemporary expressionist artists, on view through January 8, 2021.
Art
The Met Museum Misses the Mark in Recounting Its Own Complicated History
Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.
Art
Strategies for Embracing the Fabulously Mundane
A self-avowed pleasure activist, writer and professor Sami Schalk is building a project that revels in taking simple yet transformative steps towards feeling good, while rejecting ableist frameworks.
Art
Watch All the Year's Best Documentaries in One Place
The online edition of DOC NYC presents the highlights of 2020's nonfiction cinema.
News
A Tribute to Carmen Herrera Made by Students in East Harlem
“I did not hesitate to embrace this project once I was told that students themselves would be engaged in its creation,” said Herrera.
Announcement
Bard Graduate Center Hosts Virtual Open Houses for Its MA and PhD Programs
Learn about the graduate institute’s advanced study programs in decorative arts, design history, and material culture; applications are due by January 4, 2021.
News
Sotheby’s Sued for Allegedly Helping Collector Evade Millions in Taxes
In a lawsuit filed on Friday, NY Attorney General Letitia James claims that the auction house helped a collector evade sales tax on $27 million worth of artworks by accepting fraudulent resale certificates.
Art
Welcome to the Empty Gallery That Speaks Volumes
Mike Zahn gives us an image of Shrine’s empty gallery projected in the empty space, offering a commentary both meta and melancholic.
Art
Cathartic Art for Precarious Times
Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.
Art
Monumental Art No Bigger Than a Postcard
Toying with blob-like shapes and the illusion of depth, the Austrian self-taught artist Leopold Strobl packs mystery and expressive power into small-scale drawing-collages.
Art
Theaster Gates and the Shapes of Black History
Gates reminds us of the many hidden, unacknowledged, and under-recognized histories of Black culture in America.