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This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.
News
Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.
In Memoriam
Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso
This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
News
Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
The 1927 work is the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection.
Feature
Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture
Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan.
News
Trustees of Renowned West Coast Artist Residency Visited Epstein’s Island
Djerassi board members Michael Molesky and Alexander Maxwell Djerassi, nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell, visited the notorious private island in 2011.
Daily Newsletter
Josh Kline Misses the Mark
Plus Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first retrospective in 25 years, Larissa Pham’s debut novel about an artist and her predatory mentor, and the art collective reclaiming spirituality in art history.
Opinion
Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York
His new article taps into deep frustrations about affordability, but I throw my lot in with those making change, rather than moving out.
Feature
Elucidating the Esoteric with Hilma's Ghost
Through research and collaboration, a feminist art collective reclaims the place of alternative spiritualities in art history.
New York Newsletter
Kamrooz Aram Is Everywhere
Read Aruna D’Souza’s take on the Iranian artist. Plus, Duchamp is coming to MoMA, Upstate art this month, and more.
Book Review
In “Discipline,” Larissa Pham Explores Predatory Art-World Mentorship
The art critic and former painter reinvents the genre’s well-trod territory in her debut novel, which makes heartbreakingly acute the consequences of teacher-student relationships.
Art Review
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Learning about Cha was like a secret revelation handed down among Asian American artists and poets. This show helped me appreciate her more clearly.
Community
Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt
“My favorite phrase lately is ‘mouthfeel,’ which is used in relation to food and drink,” said the East Village artist. “I’m thinking about that textural quality as a parallel to the paintings.”