"How will our lives be when AI rules the world? Back to Back Theatre’s new play at the Wiener Festwochen provides a theory. "

"Now that people with disabilities are being represented more frequently it’s important to make sure they’re being represented properly. That means we don’t want people with disabilities unfairly demeaned and made servile. I love the movie _...Read More_

"In 1914, the Austrian actress Tilla Durieux was driven from Berlin to Paris some 15 times to sit for a portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the resulting painting, Durieux looks serenely grave, fixing her gaze somewhere outside its _...Read More_

"After the pandemic we’ve been through We NEED MORE JOHN FETTERMANS IN THE SENATE. Americans have been through a major healthcare crisis. Fetterman knows us."

"What is design? Is it a professional pursuit, confined to specialties such as product design, graphic design, user-experience design, or architectural design? Or should we think of it more broadly, as a way to understand and transform our _...Read More_

"A culture, a coalition, a community—slowly but surely, those involved in disability arts have been building all three. The process of combatting ableism and advocating access often feels like two steps forward and one step back, but it’s _...Read More_

"Art has played an integral—maybe even primary—role in the burgeoning movement for disability justice throughout the United States in the last decade. In memoirs, paintings and drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, and live _...Read More_

"There have been very few issues of art magazines devoted to disability. There ought to be more. As Art in America associate editor Emily Watlington, who took the lead on this issue, writes in her essay “Our Work Is Working,” disabled _...Read More_

>"No one likes to be scolded for using the “wrong” language. But we must be willing to change our habits as attitudes and language change."

>"From Belfast to St Ives, 30 UK venues are about to be taken over in an event that will draw on the tragedy of the first world war – and feature deaf dancing, origami clothing and scenes of austerity rendered in fondant icing"

>"My looks don’t fit into classical ideals of order, proportion, symmetry. So what was I looking for in that gallery in Rome?"

"In her memoir, the disabled portrait painter and Northwestern professor recalls growing up before the disability rights movement."

“The word disability is most often invoked in an environmental context as a harrowing consequence of environmental harm— the biological impact of toxic waste, polluted water, and _...Read More_