Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
Hyperallergic- Founded by philanthropists Shelley and Donald Rubin in 2010, The 8th Floor quietly and consistently hosts high quality, politically progressive art exhibitions and programs. - read more ...
Amid an Anti-Muslim Mood, a Museum Appeals for Understanding
The New York Times - They were made in Syria six centuries ago, and stand elegantly in a row of vitrines at the Uffizi Gallery here: five ceramic jars that once contained treatments, ointments and scents from ...
“Her Music, It Had a Message”: Visitors Remember Aretha Franklin at DC Museum
Hyperallergic - WASHINGTON, DC — In a country as large as the United States, there’s no way for all those mourning the recent death of beloved “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin to come together. But the National ...
The Political Art that Shaped Cold War Hungary
Hyperallergic - If you are looking for a chance to explore the material culture, art, and politics that shaped Hungary in post-World War II, look no further than Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold ...
Gregor Doc Davids
Thoughts on Carl Wilson, 2018 art glass and steel, 25” x 25”
Green Card, 2017, art glass, 12” x12”
Rainy Day, 2017, art glass, 15” x 15”
Force Field I, 2014, art glass and wood, 39” x 39”
Force...
Discovering King Tutankhamun’s tomb: Harry Burton’s photographs
BBC - It was one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century. But what was it like to first point a lens into the 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tutankhamun? That job fell to Harry Burto...
Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths
Artsy - The figure of the bather is one of the most common visual tropes in Western art history. From ancient Athens to 1920s Paris and beyond, painters and sculptors have presented bathing in a variety of ways...
How to Talk About Whiteness
Hyperallergic - The scholar Sara Ahmed opens her essay “A phenomenology of whiteness” with a series of questions on the project of examining whiteness: “If whiteness gains currency by being unnoticed, then what...
Will Robert Indiana’s legacy get stuck in a legal battle
The Art Newspaper - What will become of Robert Indiana’s legacy, and who will be in charge of preserving it? The answer might only come out of a closely-watched legal battle over the artist’s estate and his rec...
She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now
The New York Times - The artist Carrie Mae Weems recalls sitting at her desk in Syracuse in 2014 “feeling very anonymous and misunderstood and trying to figure out how to make some new work” when she got the ca...