The proposed cuts to the city of San Diego's arts and culture funding would have a significant impact on Carly Topazio's contemporary ballet company's ability to serve the community. The Rosin Box Project in Point Loma has commissioned and produced more than 59 new works since its founding.
Pace gallery slashed one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff this week. Laura Raicovich argues that society's problems come from the separation between art and life. Saif Azzuz’s ancestral landscapes, Ali Eyal's satirical Iraqi Pavilion at an LA gas station, Edward Hopper's portraits of American solitude, and Celia Paul's inward-looking paintings are featured in this week's News From Our Critics.
Spotlight Theatre Talk is Joburg City Theatre's first podcast dedicated to arts and culture. The first six episodes are available on YouTube and new episodes are scheduled to be released monthly. The podcast will focus on the journeys, experiences and ideas that shape South Africa’s creative ecosystem.
Italian labor unions, cultural workers’ associations, and grassroots collectives have joined the call for a national strike across the country’s arts and culture sector this Friday, June 12. The mobilization comes just a month after a historic strike for Palestine and workers' rights at the Venice Biennale on May 8, led by the Art Not Genocide Alliance.
Savneet Talwar, director of SAIC's graduate art therapy program, was placed on leave after she asked her students to create a mock therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration. Palestine, or the “P-word” as many refer to it nowadays, has become a third rail of creative and academic spaces.
MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins equips students with critical and creative thinking to lead cultural projects globally. The course is designed for emerging and established creative practitioners, cultural producers and professionals looking to expand their practice through critical, entrepreneurial and collaborative approaches. It is delivered both online and through intensive face-to-face weekends at King’s Cross campus and at HKU SPACE’ s Hong Kong campus.
Pace Gallery is laying off 50 workers and 50 artists. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. Kate Moss and Lucian Freud's relationship is explored in the film Moss & Freud. America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print on view at The Print Center through July 25.
Artist agents are making a comeback. Cristopher Canizares left his position as a partner at Hauser & Wirth to launch an artist management agency, the Artist Legacy Bureau. Sensity Studio was launched in London by cultural strategist Dina Mostovaya to promote female artists. Jon Horrocks is launching an artist agency focused on museum partnerships. Rachel Keller and Sarah Davis have blended their gallery experience with studio management expertise, opening Davis Keller gallery in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Riya Kamat is a junior at Singapore American School and the founder of Shadows of Progress, a podcast exploring who benefits and who gets left behind as technology evolves. At just 17, her work spans platform economics, women’s labour, technology ethics, and systems design.
Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 is the first major exhibition to position performance as an origin point for contemporary Native art. The exhibition brings together over 100 artworks by over 40 artists and collectives. It is grounded in the pivotal year 1969, when Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process was first published in Santa Fe at the Institute of American Indian Arts.