Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq

Happy Presidents' Day. 🇺🇸 Today, an exclusive look at Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about M

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Happy Presidents’ Day. 🇺🇸 Today, an exclusive look at Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Michael Rakowitz, 1,000 years of Cupids, and a new project digitizes Indigenous oral histories.– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Rakowitz’s artistic efforts to end the marginalization of West Asian art and history. Dan Schindel

Leslie Deer performing a Native American Fancy Shawl Dance on Friday, March 17, 2017, during the last day of Spring Break Escape at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum at University of Oklahoma, one of the grant's recipients. (photo by Kyle Phillips; courtesy the Norman Transcript)

Latest NewsThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has given seven institutions grants totaling a collective $1.6 million to digitize Indigenous oral histories and make them widely available, especially to Native communities. Cupid shoots through a millennia of art. The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.

SPONSORED Hyundai Motor Group Announces the Fourth VH Award for Emerging Asian Media Artists Five shortlisted artists will each receive a $25,000 production grant and the opportunity to participate in online residency programs with Eyebeam. The Grand Prix winner will receive an additional $25,000. The deadline to apply is March 18, 2021.

Ariel René Jackson on the “Detective Work” of Telling Truthful Stories “We need to keep reassessing where we get our data from to understand how the narrative is shaped. And how it shapes us,” says Jackson. Lise Ragbir

When a Con Artist Tried to Sell the “Car of the Future” The HBO true crime miniseries The Lady and the Dale argues that it’s just as important to highlight trans outlaws in addition to role models. Juan Barquin

SPONSORED CCNY Provides Nationally Recognized Graduate Arts Programs for a Remarkably Modest Tuition Earn MFA and MA degrees in Studio Art, Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice, Art History, and Art Education at the City College of New York.

A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in San Diego, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Elisa Wouk Almino

During Quarantine, an Artist Learns That Her Art “Has a Place in This World” A comic artist speaks to artists across the world to see how they — and their practices — have been holding up. Susan Coyne

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