BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World 

Jul 28, 2025

Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller,...

How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art

Jul 28, 2025

Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a testament to the enduring power of the titular British artist’s oeuvre that, even at a substantial 272 pages, Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures...

The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms

Jul 28, 2025

ALBANY, New York — Tree roots have long served as a useful metaphor for articulating connections between people, places, and ideas. And yet, it’s a limited structure. In the 1980s, French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari famously offered the rhizome as...

Video Art That Chases the Rainbow

Jul 28, 2025

Most queer people aren’t privileged with having queer parents, so many of us look to those who came before as role models. In Homage: Queer Lineages on Video, artists draw upon the legacies of folks who opened the doors we now get to walk through. It’s...

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Jul 26, 2025

Today’s Newsletter is Brought to You by FASO.FASO Loves Guido Frick’s oil paintings!Never without a cup of coffee, Oil on Canvas 30in x 30in by Guido FrickSee More of Guido Frick’s art by clicking here.Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website...

A Hollywood Hills Gallery-Home Is Reborn as an Artist’s Residency 

Jul 26, 2025

LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra to build her a house in the Hollywood Hills. Scheyer had moved to the United States in 1924 with the goal of promoting European modern art,...

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lays Off 12 Workers

Jul 26, 2025

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums in the city, laid off 12 workers, citing a 20% drop in museum visitors since the pandemic and “increased operational costs.” The...