Fifty years later, watching these movies can inspire a profound disappointment that all this artistic and political energy never found a way to convert itself into something more substantial.
Vanessa Centeno conceived her latest show there as a reaction to the need for touch in today's political climate of sensationalism and fear.
Several works at Prospect explore the chronotope of the batture, the strip of land between river and levy that floods when the waters of the Mississippi Delta rise.
The Mexico-City-based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.
In 2016 we launched the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Art in America Arts Writing Fellowships, a joint project designed to foster art and culture writing in cities throughout the US. Fellowship recip…
Bill Arning reflects on the last year's highlights of artistic life in Houston and its orbit
The representational paintings and drawings of New Orleans artist Willie Birch echo traditional African fractal patterns, reinforcing his solidarity with local “bottom up” social organizations…
My goodness, 2017 is looking like a great year on the international exhibition front. Over in Europe the Grand Tour is on offer, with the Venice Biennale, Documenta (in both Kassel and Athens!), and…
Carnival celebrations today have lost much of their original social and religious purpose, becoming, like most everything, highly commercialized events. Carnival in the Caribbean can be traced in part…
Today, the Joan Mitchell Center–part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New Orleans–announced the recipients of their first ever artist-in-residence program. Twenty artists from throughout the…