News
Tufts University Removes Sackler Name From Med School; Smithsonian Rebrands Its Sackler Gallery
The billionaire Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma who are well known for their philanthropy, has come under intense scrutiny in the art world.
Washington DC
Art
A "Last Supper" Recreated With DC Locals Has Been Hidden in Former Church's Walls
The frieze was discovered during a rehab of a building in Columbia Heights. Its reemergence tells a story of gentrification and DC’s Black community.
Art
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Celebrates the Modern Portrait
Hugo Crosthwaite, the first Latinx artist to receive the Outwin Boochever Portrait, won first prize for his animation of a woman’s journey from Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States.
In Brief
Hobby Lobby Will Return Biblical Antiquities Allegedly Stolen by Oxford Professor
The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.
Announcement
Apply for the Corcoran School of Art & Design’s New MFA in Social Practice
Applications are now open for a unique interdisciplinary MFA combining socially engaged art with a focus on public policy. Applications accepted through April 1, 2020.
Art
Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun, Two Unorthodox Abstract Expressionists
Part of the movement’s second generation, the artists embraced personal sentiment in their references to nature and popular culture, resulting in abstractions that are simultaneously experiential and devotional.
Interview
A Conversation with Rose Issa, Champion of Artists From the Middle East
On the eve of her exhibition at the new Middle East Institute Gallery, Issa talks about her decades-long curatorial career, the shifting infrastructure for artists in the region, and the need for memory and archives.
Art
The Art Handler Who Saved the Emancipation Proclamation From Drowning in Mountain Dew
Calder Brannock was told he was just transporting an empty vitrine from the National Archives in DC north toward New York. That wasn't the full truth.
Art
The International Spy Museum Seen Through the Eyes of a Human Rights Expert
"This feels like a loss," said Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch while touring the museum, flagging several errors in how curators have presented the history of torture and interrogation.
Art
A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
Art
The Cultural Legacy of Animals in Japanese Art Over 17 Centuries
With more than 300 works drawn from 66 Japanese institutions and 30 American collections, this is likely one of the largest exhibitions of Japanese art that a generation of Americans will ever see.
Art
Untethering Filipino History From American Exceptionalism
At the Katzen Art Center, Maia Cruz Palileo portrays the resilience of ordinary people, setting the stage for greater discussions of postcolonial heritage.