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Posted: November 21, 2017

2017 Recipients: Rudolf Frieling & Ed Halter

2017 ARTS WRITING AWARDS IN DIGITAL ART RECIPIENTS Rudolf Frieling received the $40,000 award ($30,000 unrestricted, merit-based award + $10,000 project grant) for an established arts writer in the U.S. who has made significant ...

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Posted: October 19, 2017

Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici at LACMA

The first major exhibition and publication devoted to eighteenth-century Mexican painting, Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici thoroughly contextualizes and repositions a period of art marked by major stylistic developments and the ...

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Posted: October 17, 2017

Interview with Joanne McNeil, 2015 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art Recipient

The Thoma Foundation’s 2015 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art recipient Joanne McNeil debuts her film Just Browsing, a five-part video series investigating what it means to be an internet user, on Thursday, ...

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Posted: October 4, 2017

Pacific Standard Time LA/LA

The Foundation is excited to support several museums participating in Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time is a collaborative effort from arts institutions across Southern California to ...

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Posted: September 21, 2017

2015 Arts Writing Award Grantee Joanne McNeil Debuts Just Browsing

JUST BROWSING: Premiere and Artist Talk Oct. 19, 2017, 7 pm at Fridman Gallery RSVP at Eventbrite The recipient of our 2015 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, Joanne McNeil has completed ...

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Posted: September 6, 2017

Announcing the New Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting

The Thoma Foundation is pleased to announce our new Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting. Becky Bivens is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses ...

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Posted: September 5, 2017

Second Skin & Color Games

Two new exhibitions are on view at Orange Door, Chicago. Second Skin proposes that an artwork’s surface is an interface (to use a digital metaphor) or a membrane (to use a biological ...

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Posted: September 5, 2017

Acquisition Highlight: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Deep Contact

Since the 1970s, Lynn Hershman Leeson has been a major voice of Cyberfeminism, a field of art that critiques the role of technology in the representation of women’s bodies and identities in ...

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Posted: July 27, 2017

New Thematic Installation Cyberbodies at Art House

The Art House seasonal exhibition program reveals “Cyberbodies,” a new thematic installation of artworks, with a public reception Friday, August 11, 5-7 p.m. The new installation continues to showcase significant highlights and ...

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Posted: June 29, 2017

Tech and the West Symposium, a partnership with the Santa Fe Opera

The Thoma Foundation is pleased to partner with the Santa Fe Opera on Tech and the West, a two-day symposium held July 21-22, and presented as part of the upcoming world premiere ...

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