On Saturday, Fractured Lands, a documentary about the Dene activist and lawyer Caleb Behn, will screen at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Daniel A. Gross is a former editor at Hyperallergic, and he is a writer and radio producer in New York City. Some of his stories have appeared in The Guardian, 99% Invisible, The Atlantic, and the website of The New Yorker.
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Meet the Monster Artist Who Created the Hellboy Universe
On Friday, the Society of Illustrators hosts a talk with Mike Mignola, whose signature style includes careful compositions, large swaths of dark ink, and shadowy humanoid monsters.
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The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones
An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.
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Design as a Strategy of Disobedience and Dissent
Design, according to a public talk in Brooklyn, has the potential to reflect and even remedy pressing social problems.
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Arts Workers Rally Around Parole Case of Black Panther Convicted of Killing Two Police Officers
Hundreds have signed a petition supporting the parole of Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Liberation Army.
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Three NYC Institutions Come Together to Examine Three Intertwined Religions
This week, a workshop and ongoing exhibition — described as “a contemporary pilgrimage” — examine physical spaces with interfaith meanings.
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Lawyer Stalls Plan to Remove Statue that San Francisco Officials Consider Racist [UPDATED]
The bronze statue “Early Days” was called “racist and disrespectful” by the San Francisco Arts Commission, which voted unanimously for its removal earlier this month.
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Trump Signs Bill Boosting the NEA and NEH Budgets He Wanted to Eliminate
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities will each receive about $153 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2018, around $3 million more than in 2017.
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Artist’s $100 Million Lawsuit Is “Completely Baseless,” Says Lawyer for Five Top Museums
Lawyers for five of the nation’s most influential museums pushed back on claims by artist Robert Cenedella that a “corporate museum cartel” engaged in “unlawful conspiracy.”
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Enchanting and Unsettling Art that Imitates the Natural World
The Nature of Things, a two-woman show in Brooklyn, explores the boundary between life and death, between the natural and unnatural.
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A Book Fair Where Visitors Collaborate with Cartoonists
For those who can’t draw to save their lives, have no fear — more than a dozen artists will be on hand to help.
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The Corniness and Complexity of Grant Wood
Steven Biel, who wrote a book about the ironic journey of “American Gothic,” considers the Grant Wood retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.