Art
Peeling Back the Layers of Religious Devotion
The artists in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art offer complex perspectives on religion grounded in their lived experiences.
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Art
In Venice, Art Bears Witness to Chaos
What role can art play in helping us understand a time of great chaos and what role can national pavilions play in a time when nation states are ever present?
Art
A Venice Show Centers Disability Justice
Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.
Film
Lesbian Bars Make a Much-Needed Comeback
The new documentary All We’ve Got shows audiences the range of spaces designed as lesbian community hubs, performance venues, and places for dancing and partying.
Books
Objects That Tell the History of LGBTQ+ Resistance
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history.
Books
Why We Still Need the Godzilla Network
If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.
Art
Hannah Toticki Searches for Our Guardian Angels
With Storage of the Gods, the artist explores what a spiritual practice can look like in our secular, stressed-out world.
Books
Women and Spiritualism in Art
In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.
Art
Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.
Art
Chinese Artists Reimagine Queer Photography
If straightness implies direction, queerness in (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography suggests anything but.
Art
The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.
Art
Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.