As an artist and a student of art history, senior Temitayo (Tayo) Ogunbiyi is drawn to works that challenge conventional notions of categorizing people by appearance, gender, nationality or other ...

This blog post is the first of a series that aims to explore and highlight Asian American culture in San Francisco and the Bay Area by reflecting upon themes related to our ongoing Asian American Now ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Currently on view at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is the exhibition East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art, curated by Aleesa Pitchamarn ...

Identity is a much richer and more nuanced concept than we often admit. In many Western and Westernized countries, finding one’s identity is an independent journey of self-discovery through ...

Note: Attendees must provide proof of vaccination (including booster, if eligible) and advance Eventbrite registration. Presented by BFA Visual & Critical Studies, the SVA Honors Program, and The ...

CHICAGO — Some contemporary Chinese artists alive today lived during the chaotic years of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), while others later endured the pressures of the one-child policy.

As a child, Jamie Chihuan would go to his grandmother’s house and see paintings of brightly colored desert landscapes and other Incan art. Years later, a high school art class helped him realize he ...

In a piece about the value of “bad” reviews, the literary critic Andrea Long Chu spoke about a kind of hubris that plagues identity-based art. “...It's a different kind of dehumanization when you ...

“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939. “It was ...