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Oregon Contemporary presents the 2024 Artists’ Biennial.

Northern Territory art teacher Jemima Saunders talks about creating a culture of trust and moving beyond high school art clichés.

Our world is changing, for better or for worse, and museums, of necessity, are responding. The coronavirus pandemic led to costly and lengthy shutdowns, but it gave administrators a chance to confront some of the persistent social issues facing all of our institutions: the insistent demands for just...

CULT Bureau will open this fall to bring opportunities for collectors to connect with new experimental artworks in a more intimate setting. OAKLAND, CALIF. – Aimee Friberg, curator ...

This year's Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) featured numerous virtual offerings—from video performances to artists' talks and panels, most of which are available to stream online at any time throughout the festival, which ends this Sunday. The flexibility of virtual offerings makes this year's TBA accessible and comprehensive. The Drift by Garrick Imatani with Travis Stewart is a fifteen-plus minute virtual reality video that chronicles a reimagined future. Imantani and Stewart h...

Anna Halprin. Photo: Shawncalhoun/Wikipedia Commons. May 26, 2021 at 3:24pm Pioneering choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin died at home in Kentfield, California, on May 24 at the age of one hundred. The news was announced by her daughter Daria Halprin on Facebook. Known for innovating what is now called postmodern dance in the early portion of her wide-ranging career, and for her participatory choreography involving the audience, Halprin devoted her life to “expa...

Tony Bravo April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 5:30 pm Carlie Wilmans at the David Ireland House on Capp Street Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 in San Francisco. Photo: Nathaniel Y. Downes, The Chronicle When longtime arts philanthropist Carlie Wilmans first stepped into artist David Ireland’s house at 500 Capp Street in the Mission District in 2008, she had no idea she would spend 13 years of her life and more than $6 million in service of its preservation. Beginning in the 1970s, Ire...

Maria Gaspar, Huong Ngo, Anna Martine Whitehead (Online) Feb. 08, 2021 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 14, 2021 PRESS RELEASE: Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture. Sousveillance – watching from below, “the monitoring of authorities by informal networks of regular people, equipped with little more than cellphone cameras, video blogs and the desire to rem...