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Making art can be an expensive and, at times, unpredictable living. Securing grants can not only give you an extra line or two on your CV, it can provide the stability and resources you need to be your most creative self. To help you get started, we’ve rounded up some amazing grants to apply for in 2018, with details like amounts, deadlines, and specific artist fields included. (via Artwork Archive)

Tensions have simmered for much of the past decade between Bushwick’s longtime Latino and African American residents and artists who moved into the area. But as more people discover the neighborhood’s charms, investors pour money into projects that increase property values and eventually force long-time residents and artists to leave for good.

Non-fiction continues at The Underground Museum (3508 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles) through March 2017. 

Bushwick Open Studios is entering its tenth year. Here is a handy guide via Hyperallergic to all of the openings and events.

As new political movements like Black Lives Matter have gained influence in recent years, social practice has risen in stature and popularity in the art world. This has contributed to the hypervisibility of cultures that have, for a long time, operated along the margins—consider how integral the work of Theaster Gates has become to at risk communities in the South Side of Chicago, or how Project Row Houses by Rick Lowe, taking inspiration from Joseph Beuys, has helped revitalize a section of Houston’s Third Ward. But there is a new wave of contemporary work influenced by racial injustices, one that has arisen in the last two years and is decidedly more sensational, predominantly focusing on pain and trauma inflicted upon the black body. Artists have made systemic racism look sexy; galleries have made it desirable for collectors. It has, in other words, gone mainstream. With this paradoxical commercial focus, political art that responds to issues surrounding race is in danger of becoming mere spectacle, a provocation marketed for consumption, rather than a catalyst for social change. (full article here)

Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition

Lister in Chelsea

Music Meets Art: Beyoncé, Formation

From Art Basel Miami Beach to Untitled, Via HYPERALLERGIC.

FAILE: Savage/Sacred Young Minds. On display at the Brooklyn Museum from July 10th through October 4th, 2015. Two thirds installation, one third painting, the Faile collective did not break new ground with their most recent exhibition.

Post-Analog Painting at The Hole -A group show highlighting the artistic and cultural shift from analog media to digital media.

Art x Music: Terence Nance's You And I And You

Heavy iron gates safeguard the thick wooden doors; the first floor windows are opaque; and the stone facade is covered with layers of spray paint and wheat-pasted posters. Most passersby would never guess that the former bank was once a palatial, single-family home where artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Adolph Gottleib rented rooms. After years of holding out and establishing 190 Bowery as the area’s last defiant monument to gentrification, the reclusive Jay Maisel offloaded the cultural landmark for $55 million to developer Aby Rosen last year. 

SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2015 The SPRING/BREAK Art Show is now in its fourth year and it continues to be one of the more exciting art destinations during Armory Week.

Art x Music: Pussy Riot - I Can't Breathe