When the US Left Afghanistan, This Filmmaker Entered
In August 2021, the United States ended its disastrous 20-year occupation of Afghanistan with a suitably slapdash withdrawal. The Taliban,…
Category: Arts
Bertille Bak’s Video Portraits of Workers Are Turning Heads in Europe
In Bertille Bak’s five-part video installation Mineur Mineur (2022), children from Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Thailand pretend to get…
How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin” – O’Reilly
Last month, The New York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area…
Shiri Achu 10th Anniversary ‘InPrint’ Exhibition
Exciting events such as a Workshop, Books Launch, Taste of Cameroon, a Fashion Show and an Auction during the…
“Inside Out 2” Understands How Anxiety Effects Me
At the climax of Pixar’s “Inside Out 2,” Riley, a freshly pubescent teen with a gaggle of new personified emotions,…
Legal challenge to preserve Toronto’s Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward
Toronto-area landscape architects, historians and residents hoping to preserve the Canadian heritage site Ontario Place were dealt a serious blow…
Required Reading
‣ For the Cut, Nell McShane Wulfhart narrates the life of Bonnie Erickson, the woman who created Miss Piggy, the…
For Venice Biennale Artists, a Very Real Halo Effect in the Market
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.…
It’s Jazz Appreciation Month: Hail Jazz Heroes!
Since 2001, the Jazz Journalists Association (over which I preside) has celebrated some 350 “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors…
The Seventh Floor (Partial Review)
Last night I spent only about 90 minutes on the 7th floor, and was thus unable to get to all…
Jeffrey Gibson: Representing the U.S., and Critiquing It, in a Psychedelic Rainbow
People in Venice might hear the jingle dress dancers before they see them. On April 18, some 26 intertribal Native…
Artists including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O’Grady and Park McArthur win Guggenheim Fellowships
Anna Betbeze, Mike Cloud, Nicholas Galanin, Lotus L. Kang, Park McArthur, Lorraine O’Grady and Dyani White Hawk are among the…
Stop Calling the 2024 Whitney Biennial “Safe”
I keep hearing people call the Whitney Biennial “safe.” It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it…
Kay WalkingStick’s Landscape Paintings Get Under the Genre’s Surfaces
IN HER 1997 DIPTYCH VENERE ALPINA, Kay WalkingStick sets a painted image of a hulking mountain in the American Rockies…
WNET Group announces layoffs to its New Jersey newsroom, plans to cancel ‘NYC-Arts’
The WNET Group in New York, which oversees the flagship public TV station and NJ PBS, among other properties, is…
Daily Campello Art News: Vaginalia
For decades now I have been observing and admiring the evolution of DMV Überartist Pat Goslee, who has some gorgeous…
Berlin Was a Beacon of Artistic Freedom. Gaza Changed Everything.
When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work…
Auction of 1,400 African art pieces halted by last-minute bankruptcy filing
A planned sale of a mysterious collection of around 1,400 African art pieces that was planned for Thursday (April 4)…
With Less Glitter, Arcmanoro Niles’s Illusory Spaces Gleam
There was a time when I was quite excited to see Arcmanoro Niles’s paintings that utilized glitter to render the…
Nelson-Atkins Museum to Sell Monet Painting at Christie’s in May
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City will sell a Claude Monet that has been on view in its…
Kristen Wiig’s series is a campy, boozy delight.
The more you watch of Palm Royale—the new Apple TV+ show starring Kristen Wiig as a wannabe socialite trying to…
Daily Campello Art News: Artomatic
Attended AOM’s opening night last night – I arrived a bit early in order to walk the 5th floor and…