In Brief
Pussy Riot Crashes World Cup Final, Makes Six Demands
For 25 seconds, Pussy Riot disrupted the World Cup in one of their most daring protests in years.
The Latest
Art
New York’s Newest LGBTQ Memorial Honors the Victims of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Anthony Goicolea’s Memorial in Hudson River Park is New York state’s official monument honoring the LGBTQ community.
Film
A New Biopic on Gauguin in Tahiti Paints a Skewed Portrait
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti maneuvers around its subject’s more questionable actions by pretending they don’t exist.
In Brief
Your New York Library Card Will Now Allow You Access to 33 City Museums
A new initiative encourages New Yorkers to use their library cards to get in free to museums across the city.
In Brief
Dalí Foundation Sues Yet Another Dalí Museum, and the Outcome Is Unpredictable
The Dalí Foundation has their sights on the Monterey museum devoted to the Spanish Surrealist and unlike the case in Spain, which the foundation lost, this may be different.
Comics
When I Stopped Taking Art-Related Jobs
A few months ago, I decided to stop taking art-related day jobs and found a warehouse to work at instead.
Art
Haunting Oppressors as a Decolonial Strategy of Resistance
At Alice Gallery, indigenous and Asian Pacific American artists channel their ancestors. Because if there’s one thing ghosts have going for them, it’s staying power.
Interviews
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Reflects on His Life, Work, and Battle with Cancer
In light of a new documentary on the composer, Sakamoto shares what compels him to write music and the influence of film on his work.
Required Reading
This week, the imaginary skyscraper at the center of a new summer blockbuster, missing Picassos, a designer of the #TrumpBaby blimp, Chinese millennials are calling themselves ‘Spiritually Finnish,’ and more.
Art • Weekend
Collaging Together Society’s Ills
Clipping photos and phrases from army recruitment magazines, Theodore A. Harris began his decades-long critique of the relationship between militarism and capitalism.
Film • Weekend
Asians in Hollywood
An Asian playing the part of a hero was inconceivable to Hollywood producers.
Art • Weekend
One Painting Can Go a Long Way
William Tillyer’s five-part painting “The Golden Striker” (2018), based on a landscape by John Constable, affirms that the possibilities of light cannot be exhausted.