The Guerrilla Girls Turn 30
The feminist art collective known as the Guerrilla Girls recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary along with additional accolades in the art world. In the past year, the Whitney Museum and the...
View ArticleSalvage and Savior: Noah Purifoy’s Assemblage
On the recent 50th anniversary of the Watts “rebellion,” “uprising,” or “riot,” (depending on your political stance), the Los Angeles Times ran two feature stories related to artist Noah Purifoy. The...
View ArticleEco-Art: Where Art Meets Education
Earlier this month, Google Maps added a special feature for coastal Los Angeles: predictive maps illustrating the effects of global warming on different neighborhoods throughout the city. This same...
View ArticleChallenging Columbus Day
Last year, Seattle’s city council unanimously voted to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in place of Columbus Day. Minneapolis also adopted this holiday earlier in the year to honor the history of...
View Article#allhandsondeck: The Art of Political Posters
It’s been over a year since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson catapulted the Black Lives Matter movement and woke a generation of strong youth dedicated to critiquing and calling an end to police...
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After Returning From War, Veterans Find Solace In Art
An exhibition entitled “Three U.S. Veterans,” currently on display at Long Beach City College, showcases the work of three United States veterans. During this month of Veteran’s Day, it is fitting to...
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Kehinde Wiley: The Unlikely Star of the Hit Show “Empire”
Fox’s Empire has finished its second season and the show has been enjoying the limelight as Fox’s most-watched prime-time show. In addition to the cast of characters, the music-driven plot, the...
View ArticleHow Luiseno Indian Artist James Luna Resists Cultural Appropriation
In recent months, planners behind the music festivals Electronic Forest and Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival have banned attendees from wearing Native American headdresses in order to take a...
View ArticleUniversities Are Now Using Recruitment Videos to Attract Prospective Students
Universities have long sought measures to attract and engage prospective students both before and after the application process. A handful of universities now are creatively exploring ways to engage...
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The Cheyenne Artist Who Is Challenging the Silenced History of Native Americans
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds is a Cheyenne artist who earned his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and his BFA from the University of Kansas. His work blends European and Native...
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The Assemblage Sculptures of Betye Saar
Artist Betye Saar is known for creating small altars that commemorate and question issues of both time and remembrance, race and gender, and personal and public spaces. College art history surveys...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Popularity of “Downton Abbey”
The BBC’s hit series Downton Abbey aired its series finale in the United States last night. What has made this show so popular in America and around the world? Carl Freedman argues that Great Britain...
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Ellen Gallagher: Questioning Race
Drawing from a vast archive of cultural references, the artist Ellen Gallagher uses a cartoon-like style to highlight pervasive, exaggerated, and pejorative caricatures of African Americans. She also...
View ArticleWhy We Should Preserve Artist Studios
The Barcelona art gallery Mayoral recently recreated artist Joan Miró’s 1956 Majorca studio. A nod to both the artist and the 60th anniversary of the studio’s opening, the recreated space welcomes...
View ArticlePower in the Painting: Faith Ringgold and her Story Quilts
Artist Faith Ringgold is known for her painted “story quilts.” Expanding upon the tradition of quilting, she adds large painted scenes to the central panel of her quilts and then surrounds these with...
View ArticleReinterpreting The Chauvet Cave Paintings
Dating back about 36,000 years, France’s Chauvet Cave paintings are some of the oldest known cave paintings. However, recent discoveries offer insight into both the dating and interpretations of some...
View ArticleThe Easter Bunny, or, Why We Love Rabbits
It’s time for colorfully dyed eggs, chocolate rabbits, Peeps, and, of course, the Easter Bunny. The origins of this curious rabbit who sneaks in and out of yards and houses to deposit baskets full of...
View ArticleBeverly Cleary, Age 100
American author Beverly Cleary turns 100 this week. Ever since the 1950 publication of her debut, Henry Huggins, Cleary has been prolific in her field, authoring over forty titles which have sold 91...
View ArticleContested Memorials and the Mothers of Gynecology
What are we to make of memorials celebrating historical figures who stood for concepts we now find morally ambiguous? A recent episode of NPR’s Hidden Brain brings up the question of such contested...
View ArticleO.J. Simpson: Media Spectacle Then and Now
With the recent popularity and success of FX’s miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, many viewers have become (re)interested in the “trial of the century” that transfixed a...
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