Art

Canada’s move to halt advertising on Facebook and Instagram amid tense negotiations with tech giants Meta and Alphabet could impact the reach of national arts and cultural institutions. Last month, the Canadian government passed the C-18 Online News Act, to be implemented at the end of the year. The law will require the parent companies of Facebook and Google to …

 Art #landscape #Lee Madgwick #nature #painting July 19, 2023 Grace Ebert “The Veil.” All images © Lee Madgwick, shared with permission A sense of unease surrounds the buildings in Lee Madgwick’s paintings, their sides crumbling or coated in thick vegetation as they stand alone in fields or swamps. The neglected structures appear lifted from cities and towns and dropped …

Hamptons Fine Art Fair booths submerged in flood water from the torrential downpour last Sunday (photos used with permission) After trudging through inches of rainwater on the venue’s floors, some participants of the Hamptons Fine Art Fair (HFAF) are pointing fingers at the fair for what they view as poor planning for the intense downpour on Southampton, New York, last …

Brickell protesters holding a sign that alludes to the age of some of the dug-up artifacts according to independent archaeologists (photo courtesy Hannah O’Neill) MIAMI — Miami’s Historic and Environmental Preservation Board has unanimously approved the preliminary designation of a portion of a 2,500-year-old ancestral site belonging to the Native Tequesta people that was found during the construction of a luxury …

With the term lullaby, the memory often flies towards enchanted dream universes opened by a delicate melody but, not all lullabies are necessarily sweet, as not all dreams are pure and enchanted. They can often be shelters. The title of the exhibition and of the video installation Dors petit dors comes from the homonymous song by the French rapper JuL, …

Japan Society is proud to present the 16th annual JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, the largest festival of its kind. From major blockbusters to indie darlings, films at this year’s JAPAN CUTS span narratives, documentaries, experimental and short films, and anime. This summer marks the festival’s long-awaited return to in-person viewing, the first time since 2019. Kicking off …

Named for a line from a poem by Ariana Reines, the works on view reflect a duality the title implies: the passive act of overlooking, and the transformations that may originate in the act of noticing. Clémence de la Tour du Pin creates sculpture from found umbrellas, objects at once structurally specific and narratively wayward. Embedding these items in a …

A selection of paintings by Pennsylvania-based artist Samantha Joy Groff. Groff received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2022 and earned a dual undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design in integrated fashion design and film studies. Raised in a small Mennonite community in rural Pennsylvania, Groff’s work often features animals, plants, and female subjects entangled in a …

 Craft Design #animals #puzzles #toys #wood #Yoshiaki Ito July 19, 2023 Kate Mothes All images © Yoshiaki Ito Slender pieces of beechwood connected by strings of elastic form a playful menagerie of toys by Brooklyn-based designer Yoshiaki Ito. Morphits begin as cubes, carefully packaged in a box, then expanded to reveal a stable of animals, which currently include a giraffe, monkey, …

In April of 1969, around 200 Black and Puerto Rican students at the City College of New York brought classes to a grinding halt. For two weeks, the protesters occupied the school’s Harlem campus in demand of a more equitable education and a student body that mirrored the racial makeup of New York City. Culminating a nearly decade-long undertaking, filmmakers …