Film
How Do We Know What’s Real in the Era of the Deepfake?
The Museum of the Moving Image show Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen tries to help visitors equip themselves to discern real images from fake ones.
Eliza Levinson
Books
Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back
Amid the recent wave of art worker unionizing, Sarah Jaffee’s Work Won’t Love you Back offers some instructive takeaways for understanding the trap of that persistent Neoliberal myth: the “labor of love.”
Art
A Scuffle Over Anti-Fascist Art in a German Museum, Explained
Following their creation of an anti-fascist art installation for a show at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, the artist-activist group Peng! Collective found themselves at the center of a perhaps inevitable brouhaha.
Art
A Comics Series Offers an Exercise in Optimism
An Instagram project by Desert Island Comics, Rescue Party offers poetic renderings of the world beyond our current reality. According to these artists, it’ll be beautiful.
Art
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Knits Language to Power
The Voice Before the Law explores the ways in which linguistic uses and misuses are bound to legal systems.
Art
Enter an Eerie Nowhere Land, Where the Mundane Meets the Mythic
In Horizontal Vertigo: WangShui, the Julia Stoschek Collection hosts an exhibition of new works by the New York-based studio known for their explorations of technology, identity, and diaspora.
Art
The Desire to “Undo” Giving Birth
Videos of a birthing in reverse in Candice Breitz's Labour document the process of mothers undoing the moment they gave birth to men who would become tyrants and dictators.
Art
When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts
As Notre-Dame burned, there was controversy over people responding by sharing selfies they'd taken at the cathedral. But there may be public value in this practice.