[ad_1] This week, a compelling three-part limited series, Pompeii: The New Dig, premiered on PBS. Originally shot for the BBC, the docuseries follows a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, and volcanologists currently involved in the largest excavation at Pompeii in a generation. Cameras follow these experts as they uncover human remains, brush off new frescoes, hollow […]

[ad_1] A group of School of Visual Arts (SVA) students and alumni staged a moving pro-Palestine demonstration last night, May 16, during an exhibition opening at the institution’s Flatiron Gallery in Manhattan. For over 45 minutes, the activists read the names and ages of children killed in Gaza since Hamas’s October 7 attack, demanding the […]

[ad_1]  Art #marble #portraits #Stefaan De Croock #wood “PORTRAIT D I 24” (2024), recycled wood sculpture, 55.12 x 36.61 inches. All images © Audrey Jonchères, courtesy of Nosbaum Reding, shared with permission Lush with material textures, Stefaan De Croock’s portraits have no identifying attributes. The Belgian artist (previously) puzzles together fragments of wood or marble […]

[ad_1] A group of fine arts students at Parsons School of Design has withdrawn artwork from their BFA thesis exhibition amid an ongoing strike to pressure the New School to divest from companies connected to Israeli military interests. In lieu of the official exhibition, the students are staging an alternative show titled Seeds of Solidarity […]

[ad_1]  Craft Design #architecture #Pan Pan Hua #Taiwan #tiles All images courtesy of Pan Pan Hua The Taipei City-based studio Pan Pan Hua is preserving local heritage by recreating the historic details unique to the region’s built environment. “Through years of research, we have found that the mosaic tile, once thriving in Taiwan, ceased […]

[ad_1] In the middle of her commencement speech, actor and poet Amanda Seales stepped away from the rostrum and turned around with a flourish to show the back of her graduation gown, right below the keffiyeh she was wearing. The words painted on the gown read, “Master’s in Revolution.” It was a fitting beginning to […]

[ad_1]  Art #painting #Sarah Helen More “Foolin Around.” All images © Sarah Helen More, courtesy of Garvey|Simon, shared with permission Textile design and the visual language of quilting shine through in Sarah Helen More’s paintings. Her kaleidoscopic works pair various geometric and botanical motifs in patchworks of flat graphic color. Emitting a joyful, meditative […]

[ad_1] On May 6, two feminist activists entered Centre Pompidou-Metz in France and spray-painted Gustave Coubert’s 1866 work “The Origin of the World” with the “Me Too” slogan. Artist Deborah De Robertis claimed responsibility for the action, saying her intention was to “call on all women, with or without vulvas, all intersex, trans and non-binary […]

[ad_1]  Art History Social Issues #exhibition #installation #sculpture #Tavares Strachan “Inner Elder (Nina Simone as Queen of Sheba)” (2023), ceramic, 39 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches. Photo by Jonti Wilde. All images © Tavares Strachan, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, shared with permission In 1887, an African-American man named Matthew Henson […]

[ad_1] Newsprint pages flitting in the wind, a scatter of pins, a cracked mirror, an exposed garter belt on a blurred body, a blinking eye. Kitten heels dancing the Charleston, painted brows and a string of pearls, a masked woman arching her neck for a kiss, a trio in striped tank tops tossing oversized die […]