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Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, authors who also make art, and the delight of writing fiction.

Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving.

In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico.

The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935. Support Independent Arts Journalism

Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.

The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935.

The show will center “the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian story, and the Palestinian cause,” said artist Tasneem Shatat.

Among several modes enthusiastically adopted by painters in the last century, spontaneity is still held in the highest regard. Having proved durable for artists of varying ideologies and orientations, spontaneity has been transformed from a method to a value. Overworking an image, a technical misstep one assumes was as common in the past as it is today, is no longer understood as a misstep but as an insufficient appreciation of the extemporaneous. Our ubiquitous taste for color in the higher keys is also a direct result of our collective loyalty to this and to other assertive painting methods. Color is likely to be cleaner and more intense if applied in uninterrupted passes over a prepared surface.

In the not too distant past a painter would happily yield to the call of traditional materials for what would have seemed at the time rather obvious reasons. It was implicitly understood that one performed best on a platform suited to one's talent. These days an artist's choice of medium is riddled with anxiety, complicated by considerations other than innate ability. Because the now conventional (and highly questionable) notion that an artist must keep their precise intentions foremost in the eyes of the viewer, flexibility toward materials and techniques, coupled with an expanding availability of new media, has made committing to one path seem confining. And though an argument could be made that all this choice has made mastering a discipline obsolete, the number of artists that maintain visual credibility in a multi-discipline world remains predictably small.

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