EVOLVING HUMANITIES · CULTURE, IDEAS & PUBLIC LIFE
Independent perspectives. Shared humanity.
About usNewsletterSupport our work
Evolving Humanities

Understanding culture. Exploring change. Evolving together.

IN FOCUSCities & public spacesDigital cultureCultural heritageIdentity & representation
Home / Arts & Culture
Evolving Humanities

Arts & Culture

Art, creative practice, and the cultural spaces that connect us.

Flat editorial illustration of suspended looped wire sculptures hanging in a bright museum gallery
Article

Ruth Asawa’s Wire Worlds Finally Get Their European Reckoning

The first major European retrospective of Ruth Asawa opened at the Fondation Beyeler on 18 October - some 200 works, six decades, and a career that runs from Black Mountain College to San Francisco's fountains. Europe is late to Asawa. The show makes the lateness hard to defend.

4 min read · Evolving Humanities
A gallery interior inside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Article

The Stowaway Comes Home: De Kooning’s Drawings Take Over the Rijksmuseum

A hundred years after Willem de Kooning stowed away from Rotterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum has brought more than 120 of his drawings, paintings and sculptures back to the Netherlands — and hung two of his most famous canvases a few rooms from the Night Watch.

5 min read · Evolving Humanities
A visitor standing before large expressionist paintings in a quiet museum gallery
Article

Nothing To Do But To Try: Boris Lurie’s Private War Paintings Open in Cleveland

Boris Lurie never showed the most personal paintings of his life. He made them in 1946, fresh out of the camps, and then kept them private for the remaining six decades he lived. Those works — nearly a hundred paintings and drawings — now sit at the centre of Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try, at the Maltz Museum in Beachwood, Ohio.

4 min read · Evolving Humanities
Vintage Bell & Howell Focus-Matic 671 XL Super 8 Zoom Movie Camera, Made In Japan, Circa 1973 (27938881080)
Explainer

How a Film Festival’s Selection Begins

Eligibility rules make a film available for consideration; programming turns those possibilities into a particular event.

2 min read · Evolving Humanities
Benton Museum of Art collections vault
Analysis

Inside the Museum Storeroom

Open storage changes the visitor’s relationship with a collection, while making the work of care more visible.

2 min read · Evolving Humanities
Evolving Humanities

Language & reading settings

We use your browser language automatically. You can choose another language at any time.

Read in your language

Language is selected automatically from your browser settings.

249 languages

Your chosen language is remembered in a preference cookie for 180 days. Google provides automatic translations, which may contain errors. Text inside images stays in its original language.