Entertainment Justice griots like Will See and Bryce Detroit organize communities through rap, while Pope.L’s work linking Flint and Detroit to New York shows how infrastructures that enforce scarcity can be evaded. Continue reading
Food banks across the United States have been seeing an unprecedented uptick in usage since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and dozens of Chicago natives and current residents have joined together to provide local aid. Since June 25, Prints for Hunger has raised $20,000 for the Greater Chicago Food Depository through its online fundraiser selling 84 photographers’ most significant works from the past few decades.
Prints are sold for $100, with $85 being donated to help community members in-need. More Continue reading
Art world advice columnists on how artists and galleries can survive COVID-19. Continue reading
Cuts amount to almost a 20 percent decrease in the mega-gallery’s workforce. Continue reading
Works by Matthew Wong, Amoako Boafo, and Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe shot past their estimates. Continue reading
Mega-galleries are moving into the city, while some small galleries are moving out. Continue reading
A new CGI animation by Optical Arts depicts what would be a dinner-party nightmare: ceramic plates and bowls shatter, red wine cascades from long-stemmed glasses, and sharp knives dive to the floor. Despite its explosive scenes, “Tocatta” subsequently shows the same dinnerware, drinks, and plates of boiled eggs seamlessly repair and float upward as whole objects.
A multivalent consideration of physical contact, the word “tocatta” both originates from an Italian form of “to touch” and refers to a musical composition designed to showcase the performer’s refined techniques. More Continue reading
AbTec Island is an online community space, where Second Life users can hang out and talk. But it’s also a place where visions of Indigenous histories and futures coexist. Continue reading
Through a winding series of delicate illustrations, Zoe Keller (previously) explores the fragility of the natural world. In Scale & Bone, the Portland-based illustrator renders copper belly water snakes, San Francisco garters, and eastern diamondback rattlers through sinuous compositions that are ripe with skeletal remains, rows of butterflies, and dense patches of fungi. Each graphite drawing examines the tension between life and death and how nature’s processes are cyclical, including the shedding and regeneration of tube-like layers of skin. More Continue reading
Nearly a third of workers at the museum signed a letter decrying a lack of accountability. Continue reading
A meeting with composer and artist John Cage prompted him to move his gallery in a more adventurous direction. Continue reading
Thirteen international art institutions will show the film on their websites for 48 hours. Continue reading
It was not clear what role a recent censorship controversy played in her departure. Continue reading
The painting is one of two “Onement” works still held privately. Continue reading
Each spring, Helsinki-born photographer Konsta Punkka (previously) stakes out dens, showing he’s as clever in strategy as the foxes he’s hoping to encounter. This commitment to hours lying on cold, wet ground for hours on end has afforded a splendid array of photographs depicting the furry creatures as they tussle, play, and sometimes, expend pent-up energy gnawing on cars. “Fox cubs are often naturally very curious, so all you need to do is to keep a safe distance from the den area and just lay in the ground and wait. More Continue reading
When Adrian Brandon starts to color a portrait, he sets a timer. For his rendering of Breonna Taylor, the clock is set to 26 minutes—for George Floyd, 46 minutes, for Tony McDade, 38, and for Aiyana Stanley Jones, just seven. “When the alarm sounds, I am hit with a wave of emotions ranging from anger, to deep sadness, to hopelessness, to feeling lucky that I am still here,” he says.
The Brooklyn-based artist is working on Stolen, a series of partially filled-in depictions of Black people murdered by police. More Continue reading
As protesters around the world topple contested statues, the late artists’ legacy offers a vision for public art grounded in democratic processes. Continue reading
“It is not enough for the museum to ‘reflect’ on the ‘power and possibility of art,'” the letter reads. Continue reading
“We’re very busy providing solutions,” one expert said. Continue reading
The commercial success of artists like Steve McQueen and Chris Ofili shows how unstable the career can be. Continue reading
