[ad_1] 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. […]

[ad_1]  Design #furniture #Under Pressure Solutions April 24, 2024 Grace Ebert Photo by Jasmine Deporta. All images courtesy of ÉCAL, shared with permission A team of industrial designers prototyped a furniture collection that dramatically transforms from flat sheets into fully functional objects, no tools required. Taking Gaetano Pesce’s spectacular “Up 5” chair as a […]

[ad_1] 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 […]

[ad_1]  Art #climate crisis #Julie Heffernan #landscapes #painting April 23, 2024 Grace Ebert “Self Portrait as Emergency Shipwright” (2013), oil on canvas, 60 x 84 inches. All images © Julie Heffernan, shared with permission Julie Heffernan likens her paintings to “advent calendars gone haywire.” Working in oil on canvas, the Brooklyn-based artist renders vast […]

[ad_1] 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 […]

[ad_1]  Art History #Brazil #crochet #Ernesto Neto #installation #Portugal #textiles April 23, 2024 Kate Mothes Photo by Joana Linda. All images © Ernesto Neto, courtesy of MAAT, shared with permission An enormous, cascading installation of crocheted fabric strips stretches across a cavernous gallery in Ernesto Neto’s newest exhibition. At MAAT in Lisbon, the Brazilian artist […]

[ad_1] Caravaggio, “Death of the Virgin” (c. 1601–06), oil on canvas, 12 1/10 x 8 feet, held at the Louvre Museum (image via Wikimedia Commons) When the water-logged, bloated corpse of the drowned Maddalena Antognetti, a sex worker who used the name “Lena,” was dredged from Rome’s Tiber river in the summer of 1604, she […]

[ad_1]  Art Design #death #Paa Joe #sculpture #wood April 22, 2024 Grace Ebert “Yellow Cab” (2024), Emele wood, enamel, cloth, acrylic, 92 x 27 x 44 inches. All images courtesy of Superhouse, shared with permission New Yorkers are known for their unwavering devotion to the city, but would they want to spend eternity inside […]

[ad_1] VENICE — Beyond the Giardini’s national pavilions and the central exhibition at the Venice Biennale, visual culture abounds throughout the streets and walls of the city, which is covered in layers of history, graffiti, and inscriptions that go back centuries. This week, visitors to the contemporary art event and longtime residents alike are stopping […]

[ad_1]  #sponsor April 22, 2024 The Other Art Fair Dawn Beckles, “Forever The Cream” (2023), acrylic, charcoal, gold leaf, spray paint, paper on canvas Get ready for an art event unlike any other. The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art returns to ZeroSpace in Brooklyn from May 16 to 19. With each new […]