For too long, the rich and layered modern visual cultures of non-Western societies have been summarily dismissed as derivative of Europe and America. Only recently, for example, have we begun to ...

A new exhibition, “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” is now open at the International Center for Photography in New York City. The exhibit of photos, TV ...

Think about some of our common sources of entertainment and information that we are exposed to everyday — BuzzFeed, PowerPoints, Instagram, newspapers, Netflix, magazines, textbooks and others. What ...

Phillips Academy is a college preparatory boarding school of about 1,100 students established in 1778 and located 30 minutes north of Boston in Andover, Mass. The Addison Gallery of American Art, on ...

Africa is everywhere, so pervasive in our lives that we barely see it. Since it is in all likelihood the continent where human evolution began, it is literally in the bloodstream of everyone. DNA ...

The modern civil rights movement emerged alongside the explosion of TV and popular pictorial magazines. Suddenly Americans were watching scenes of demonstrators—black and white—being beaten and ...

Chiqui Esteban is the Deputy Director for Art, Maps, and Graphics at National Geographic magazine. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, information graphics, ...

Professors Balco (chair) and Rand (Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies); Associate Professors González Valencia and Nguyen; Assistant Professor Boomer (Art and Visual Culture, ...

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture, is set to open in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. The nearly 700,000-sf building was designed by Herzog & de Meuron in ...

“One of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership was his incisive understanding of the power of visual images to alter public opinion,” says Maurice ...