How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art
NY Times - During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. - read more...
A project created to document chaos: “because we live in a strange world”
domus - An Instagram profile that captures the obscure, surrealistic side of world news: it's an editorial project born digital to become more than that, and also a reflection of its creator. Or maybe just jour...
A New, Interactive Sculpture by Suchi Reddy Illuminates Our Hopes and Fears About the Future
Smithsonian Magazine - At the first event of the Smithsonian’s new Arts and Industries Building—the 1881 inauguration ball for the newly elected President James Garfield—the centerpiece in the rotunda was the m...
yasuaki onishi suggests society today with ‘distance between presence and absence’
design boom - Japanese artist yasuaki onishi presents ‘distance between presence and absence’ at the takamatsu art museum in japan. - read more ...
What should museums do with the bones of the enslaved?
Art Daily - In an undated image provided via National Library of Medicine, a page from from Morton’s “Crania Americana,” one of a series of works outlining a supposed hierarchy of intelligence based on skull s...
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
NY Times - Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says. - read mor...
An artist-designed supermarket pops up in London
Domus - For five days, the Design Museum shop in London will turn into a small supermarket selling essential products designed by emerging artists. - read more ...
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
Smithsonian Magazine - In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look. - read more...
San Francisco and Other Cities Try to Give Artists Steady Income
NY Times - Through pilot programs, cities are giving checks to artists in hopes of allowing them to focus on their creative output instead of having a second job. - read more...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian - Over the past six months as an Advanced Level Intern at SAAM, I have been engaged in a deep dive into the women artists represented in the museum’s collection. - read more ...