Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is donating $2 million to the Smithsonian American At Museum, to endow a new fellowship there. Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract impressionist painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s and painted into the early 2000s. From...
Aug 11, 2023 | Art, Culture
Maine trails will be getting a little artistic touch soon, with the return of Portland Museum of Art’s “Art Outside.” The program was a success last summer. L.L.Bean, the Maine Department of Agriculture, the Conservation and Forestry Bureau of Parks and Land,...
Jul 26, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
A Chicago museum is building a new program to teach art, promoting artists of color at the same time. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is working with Romi Crawford to built an intensive semester-long art course, an alternative to traditional models of art...
Jul 22, 2023 | Art, Music, News & Trending
Haptic suits are here to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people a new way to enjoy live music. Not Impossible Labs is an organization focused on using technology in various forms to increase accessibility, tackle food insecurity, and protect human rights. “By packing...
Jul 10, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
The Real Unreal will open soon in Grapevine Mills, Texas, the latest of Meow Wolf’s surrealist immersion experiments. The Real Unreal is the home of a fictional, multigenerational family, and the various rooms and spaces of it take visitors through the stories...
