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On Tuesday morning, April 23, less than a week after more than 100 Columbia University students were suspended and arrested for protesting on university grounds, 11 members of the arts faculty sent their students a letter. “We, the undersigned Visual Arts and Music faculty, stand for your constitutional rights of assembly and free speech. We […]
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A protester holds up a print of artist Pilar Veiga’s viral illustration in support of public education at the march on Tuesday, April 23. (all photos © Nahuel Ignacio Sánchez Painequir) Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets in Buenos Aires and across major cities in Argentina for the Marcha Universitaria in support of
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SAN FRANCISCO — At 10am today, April 24, staff at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) released an open letter signed by nearly 100 current and former employees urging the institution’s leaders to issue a statement on Israel’s war on Palestine, where the death toll has surpassed 34,000. In the six months since fighting erupted
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Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Advanced Program Online is a college-level certificate for art and design students in grades 10–12 or equivalent. This series of intensive online courses calls on creative young people to apply art and design methods to chart new territories of creation and problem-solving. Why Advanced Program Online? A RISD ExperienceTurn
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The release of the English translation of the 2016 photo book Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, with a new foreword by activist and writer Mohammed El-Kurd, coincides with an era in which more images of Palestinians are circulating than perhaps ever before. Each day, a montage of genocidal horrors documented
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Mary Lum, “Some Thing” (2024), acrylic on paper 33 7/8 x 26 1/2 inches (all images courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery) Mary Lum is a collagist and flaneuse who explores streets and archives. The poet Charles Baudelaire, who coined the “flaneur,” considered it a male designation. Lum upends that perception, as well as our desire for
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Photographs do not prepare you for an encounter with the work of Toshiko Takaezu. The brushwork is bold and free, and the towering scale mocks the limits of the kiln. Takaezu cracked and cajoled the rules of ceramics, which are tethered to temperature and chemistry. Her work is clay and copper transformed by fire, but
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LOS ANGELES — MFA programs operate like small monarchies. Within each of their royal families, ancient decisions calcify into creation myths: recalcitrant tenured faculty members retain small cohorts of unruly proteges, and niche preferences dictate the cultural production of the populace. These court dramas provide a rich backdrop for UCLA’s MFA Exhibition #3 at the
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It’s been more than three decades since the federal government implemented the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), but the Denver Art Museum (DAM) has yet to repatriate cultural objects to the Tlingít and Haida Tribes in Alaska despite requests for their return, the Denver Post reports. With a sprawling Indigenous Arts of
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Three climate activists received suspended eight-month prison sentences today, April 23, for spraying orange paint onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. The activists, aged between 22 and 64 years old, are members of the German climate group Last Generation, which made international headlines in September for using paint-filled fire extinguishers to douse the national monument’s columns in
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