ExploreDayton digital media artist Tess Cortés uses technology to explore personal history Photographer Andy Snow is showing “Time Bends, Space Blends,” a fascinating look at the ways area cities and towns have changed in the years since the devastating 1913 flood. Artist Tess Cortés has created “Vanishing Point,” two videos that incorporate family movies, photos
In her illuminating book Archive of Feelings (2003), feminist and queer scholar Ann Cvetkovich observes how: “The act of archiving personal and collective memories can serve as a form of activism, a way to resist erasure and claim visibility for marginalized experiences.” 20 years on from the publication of this seminal work in the field
The Chicago High School for the Arts, or ChiArts, thrives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. ChiArts’ Class of 2024 graduates face bright futures. They will study engineering, sculpture, sociology, jazz, premed, poetry and more. This range of opportunity exists only because the students who attend ChiArts have access to a robust academic and arts education.
The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen sat down in the lobby of a hotel in Chelsea one recent Saturday evening. He was wearing a double-breasted cotton jacket, indigo jeans, and unscuffed leather shoes. As usual, he was in heavy-rimmed spectacles with rounded edges, like Yves Saint Laurent’s. It was McQueen’s last evening in New York,
Doug Aitken, the acclaimed American multidisciplinary artist at the forefront of contemporary art, is set to debut his first exhibition in Türkiye at Borusan Contemporary this September. Known for his boundary-pushing exploration of all forms of artistic expression since the 1990s, Aitken has garnered prestigious accolades such as the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the latest entry to Sega’s Like a Dragon series, sold over one million units worldwide within a week of its release, breaking the franchise’s past records. But the grander the scale of a title, the easier it is for the individual efforts behind it to go unnoticed. That’s why we
Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj (Images via Getty Images) Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj won Best Male and Female Hip-Hop Artist awards, respectively, at the 2024 BET Awards, which took place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 30. Lamar was up against strong competitors, including 21 Savage, Burna Boy, Drake, Future, Gunna,
Ingenuity threads throughout Featherstone Center for the Arts’ new exhibition “Rising Up! A Multi-Cultural Celebration of Stitched Fine Art.” Put the idea of a quilt show out of your head. The artwork in “Rising Up!” intriguingly pushes boundaries of subject matter, from figurative to abstract, materials, scrim to plastics, and dimensionality, with some works physically
Background Auction house Sotheby’s was in the news recently for bringing investment creativity to the art world, by launching an innovative $500 million art backed debt instrument securitising loans for art works with a value of around $2.85 billion and which include works by Rembrandt, Warhol and Picasso. This securitisation includes 89 personal loans given
Image caption, Children at Victoria Junior School in Workington created poetry for the art trail Article information Author, Duncan Hodgson Role, BBC Radio Cumbria 7 hours ago Children have written poetry to be displayed as part of a town’s art trail. Cumberland Council commissioned three visual artists to produce work and deliver workshops for Workington