This past Friday, the Trump administration issued a proposal to eradicate numerous arts-centered agencies from the federal budget. These “small agency eliminations” include the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Interviews & Essays
The first Haitian female artist to exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–with her remarkable paper dress sculpture, Justice of Ezili–conceptual artist Fabiola Jean-Louis (b. 1978) captures viewers’ attention with her Afro Surrealist creations.
If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to the twenty-first century CE.
Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media–including textiles, video, watercolor, and collage.
In both comical and calamitous fashion, it was recently revealed that a valuable silkscreen print by Andy Warhol was accidentally thrown into the garbage at a town hall in the Dutch municipality of Maashorst.
On a map of the United States, Louisiana appears to splinter off into the ocean, breaking apart into thousands of tiny, marshy pieces. And with every year, those pieces of wetland grow smaller and farther apart.
On Easter Monday, April 21st, Pope Francis– head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State– passed away at the age of 88. His funeral is set to be held this upcoming Saturday, but a number of rituals are taking place before then.
Much as the late nineteenth-century American myth of Manifest Destiny was used to justify westward expansion, many history paintings worked to shape and uphold stories of superiority and inferiority. This popular genre of painting, especially when applied to the depiction of historical events, sheds light on the manner in which art can be used to manipulate the truth.
When the czar Alexander III took the throne in 1881—accompanied by his wife, Maria Feodorovna, he unwittingly began a lavish Easter tradition within the Russian imperial court—the bedazzled egg.
A graffiti art exhibition at Arts Arkade near Piccadilly Circus in London was shut down early after vandals swooped in overnight and smeared profanity on the walls.
