Art
Required Reading
This week, seeing Caravaggio, the new Princeton Art Museum, Judith Butler on JK Rowling, white supremacy and classical music, the QAnon threat, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Podcast
Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World
In this two-part conversation, two of the leading activists in the New York art community talk about their lives, work, and what’s next.
Art
Elements of Adam Pendleton’s Creative Lexicon
An excerpt from his limited edition artist book that accompanies his exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Books
The Shadow of Chernobyl
Darmon Richter ventured to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to record the remnants of one of the world’s most serious nuclear disasters.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy's difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more.
In Brief
Can You Spot a Social Media Troll?
This website is designed to help you learn more about trolls and how to spot them online.
Art
Required Reading
This week, fact check all of the vote-by-mail falsehoods, an academic takedown of a trade book, riding an ostrich, how we can dismantle white supremacy, an uptick in cracked teeth, and more.
Opinion
It’s Time to End the 9/11 Tribute in Light
After almost 20 years, what started as a temporary memorial has turned into a symbol of extreme nationalism.
Podcast
The Artistic World of the Taíno People
In Arte del mar, curator James Doyle highlights some of the most fascinating precolonial objects at the Metropolitan Museum.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Apple's new sphere, demanding the impossible, objectivity in journalism, the absence of Latinx people in US mainstream culture, who defines racism, and more.
Art
Sunday Edition, Mistakes: 😬 From Oversights to Missteps ❌
Errors are the focus of this edition, as writers Lucy Lippard, John Yau, Robert Storr, Karen Wilkin, Kimberly Bradley, Tulsa Kinney, and Erin Thompson offer takes on being wrong.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ava DuVernay interviews Angela Davis, newly declassified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, poking fun at wealthy Brooklyn moms, and more.