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Good Morning. 🌨🌧️ This week, artists, critics, and curators share pro-tips for setting boundaries, a
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Good Morning. 🌨🌧️ This week, artists, critics, and curators share pro-tips for setting boundaries, a look at art historian Leo Steinberg’s important print collection, and the serious Facebook problems impacting arts organizations in Australia.
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Experience Wassily Kandinsky’s Art Through Simulated Synesthesia
Experience Wassily Kandinsky’s Art Through Simulated Synesthesia
A new project from Google Arts + Culture uses machine learning and Kandinsky’s extensive color theories to interpret what the painter might have heard when working on this painting.
Sarah Rose Sharp
SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo
SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.
Paul D'Agostino, David Boffa and Thomas Micchelli
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
Valentina Di Liscia
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First US Stamp by Alaska Native Person Spotlights Tlingit Lore
First US Stamp by Alaska Native Person Spotlights Tlingit Lore
The stamp, designed by Tlingit and Athabascan artist Rico Lanáat’ Worl, features the raven as a trickster-spirit within a field of gold stars, holding the sun in his beak.
Sarah Rose Sharp
How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
Lauren Moya Ford
The Truth About the Black Panther Party, Beyond the History of Misinformation
The Truth About the Black Panther Party, Beyond the History of Misinformation
A new biopic of Fred Hampton has put the Panthers back in the spotlight. Learn more about them with these documentaries.
Dan Schindel
Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
I cannot think of another narrative painter as expansive, surprising, funny, unsettling, tender, wacky, challenging, theatrical, and radically imaginative as Angela Dufresne.
John Yau
Artists, Writers, and Curators Share Pro-tips for Boundary Setting
Artists, Writers, and Curators Share Pro-tips for Boundary Setting
On the benefits of an auto-email responder, access riders, and, most importantly, moving more slowly.
Rea McNamara
A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
Black Art, HBO’s documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.
Seph Rodney
It's Time to Shift the Power Inequities Among Arts Nonprofits
It's Time to Shift the Power Inequities Among Arts Nonprofits
This is a calling-in to the philanthropic, nonprofit, and education sectors to expand their circles of trust beyond white or white-adjacent executive leadership in order to water the roots.
Toya Lillard
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