Cindy Persinger

Recognizing Indigenous Cultural Carriers in the Arts Canada Council awards Honorary Recognition to three Language Keepers promoting Indigenous languages through art and culture.

These surpass Donald's Kennedy Center Honors awardees.

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YouTube video by PBS Edel Rodriguez’s Artistic Journey From Exile to Expression | In the Making | PBS

Here is some beautiful art that also packs a political punch. Meet Edel Rodriguez.

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Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar

Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It. Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say it’s illegal to withhold financial support from them. Their funding is protected by trea...

NEW: The Trump administration has suspended millions in USDA grants to tribal colleges and universities. It might force some students to drop out.

My story for @propublica.org

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Power of Photography in the Footsteps of Susan Sontag The independent digital art platform ArtRedCo is holding its first exhibition at Ark Kültür, curated by Beral Madra. Opening on March 6, the exhibition titled “Today, everything exists to end in a pho...

The exhibition in Istanbul "brings together 28 works by 22 artists, presenting a selection that questions the social, cultural, and political impact of photography in the digital age."

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Pitt’s History of Art and Architecture Department receives $500K grant to center social justice The University of Pittsburgh will receive a $500,000 Mellon Grant to help the school’s history of art and architecture department shape a more socially just curriculum.

Fantastic! Pitt History of Art and Architecture

Panel from the Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts depicting the immunization of a child staged as a modern nativity scene. The child is in the lower center of the composition, with a nurse to his left (as Mary) and a male doctor giving the shot to the right (Joseph). Below, a horse, sheep, and an ox fill the lower portion of the frame. Above, three scientists in a lab (Wise Men) research vaccines.

Diego Rivera in Detroit, for no particular reason. 💉

Morning run a few days ago… I run to stay sane

Please join us at the 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference in NYC at the Hilton Midtown!

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When I taught Art Humanities at Columbia, this was in the slide kit (yes, back in the dark ages with actual slides).

You could always pull it out when a student asked, "But why didn't Picasso paint things the way they really look?"

He *could* do it, but chose not to. Welcome to art history.

Call for nominations: board elections 2025 - Museums Association Our board shapes the future of the MA and the sector

Last chance | Calling all MA members in Scotland 📢

We're still looking for nominations for two MA board members based in Scotland 📍

If you're talented, creative and looking to make your mark on our strategic direction and the wider sector, we want to hear from you.

Nominations close *tomorrow* 👇

When Elizabeth Catlett Sculpted Martin Luther King Jr. The bronze bust, newly acquired by the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, is now on public view for the first time since its creation.

Elizabeth Catlett’s bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr., created for a competition in the 1980s, is on public view for the first time at San Francisco’s de Young Museum.

I so get it.

I am not familiar with the Rosa painting, but you are absolutely right! We need a bit context to better understand it. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sa...

‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30.

Looks like a trip to Chicago to see this show - Project a Black Planet - before March 30 www.wbez.org/arts/2025/01...

Ai Weiwei's New Toy Brick Masterpieces Re-Mix Art History Ai Weiwei presents shocking recreations of famous paintings and news images made from thousands of LEGO and WOMA bricks in New York City.

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Black Artists Archive Launches to Preserve Black Art Legacy With $125,000 in funding, the organization aims to safeguard critical pieces of Black artistic and cultural heritage for future generations.

Important work - Black Artists Archive. wordinblack.com/2025/01/blac...

Donald Trump's official portrait: The 17th Century painting that unlocks this mysterious image Following the release of the US president-elect's official portrait, an expert reveals how scouring the pages of art history can help decode its meaning.

I am always eager to consider how contemporary images compare with earlier examples, I’m not sure this gets this one exactly right. Anyone have a better example? www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

The art of divination | Apollo Magazine From the ancient world to modern times, humans have looked to the esoteric arts to answer questions about life, the universe and everything

A string of exhibitions at the Getty, Bodleian Library and the Warburg Institute shine a light on the thorny practice of divination and show how it has long made its way into visual culture, writes Louisa McKenzie – from the January issue of Apollo, out now

Wemby played chess with folks in Washington Square Park in New York City

Tirzah Garwood in her own words | Apollo Magazine As a large exhibition of her work opens in London, this modern British artist’s autobiography makes for a colourful companion piece, writes Nicola Beauman

Chronicling the life of a woman struggling to make time for art amid the constraints of childcare and housework, Tirzah Garwood’s autobiography makes for a colourful companion to Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition

‘Of Salt and Spirit’: Black Quilters Record Southern History The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, is displaying the exhibit, “Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South,” through April 15, 2022.

“It’s important for me to celebrate the contributions of these women as artists, as everyday archivists and individuals who inspire so many," guest curator Sharbreon Plummer said of the Mississippi Museum of Art's new exhibit showcasing Black quilters from the South.

Gorgeous!

Exhibition Aids Ashville’s Hurricane-Stricken Arts Community The proceeds from Love Asheville From Afar will benefit artists impacted by Helene, which tore through the city's River Arts District.

As Asheville continues to recover from Hurricane Helene, an exhibition in Atlanta spotlights over two dozen River Arts District artists impacted by the storm’s devastation.

Mid-day run

Field with cattle seen through bare branches of trees along river bank

Two swans in stream with some turbulence as it flows under wooden bridge seen at lower left

Admiring the artistry of Gwen Raverat, a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers, granddaughter of Charles Darwin ~ Here’s The Fen / Grantchester Millpond