Art
Required Reading
This week, Ai Weiwei in Minneapolis, how museums can help people understand pandemics, what 'politically correct art' means, being a rich writer, how much animals sleep, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Podcast
What Artists Need to Know About US Taxes
Artist and tax specialist Hannah Cole shares her knowledge to help artists of all types get the breaks they deserve.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the full story behind the closing of the Marciano Art Foundation, the LA County Museum of Art's debt issues, colonialism and Parasite, a Hieronymus Bosch parade, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new Banksy, LACMA is in bad shape, watch the Oscar-winning short animation film, Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, and more.
Art
Required Reading
In this week's Twitter-heavy edition, the world's second largest diamond, reviewing American Dirt, gentrification and the Istanbul Biennial, Twitterstorians, emoji RIPs, and more.
Art
New US Space Force Logo Looks a Lot Like Star Trek's Starfleet Logo
The new logo seems to appeal to kids who want to grow up and join the fictional Starfleet Academy.
Interview
As Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins, Reconsidering the Watergate Courtroom Sketches
These drawings by Freda Reiter captured the impeachment drama of Richard Nixon over 40 years ago.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a Mercedes inspired by the film Avatar, the psychosexual dimensions of Slave Play, Instagram censorship, the dance that revolutionized ballet, the anti-imperialist history of the untucked shirt, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Uber and Hyundai create a new air taxi prototype, an unlikely figure helped make the Met Museum more democratic, another look at Leonardo's role in "Salvator Mundi," a list of Black artists and writers in Appalachia, and more.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
News
Trump Threatens War Crimes on Iran in New Tweet About Cultural Sites
After the assassination of Iranian major general Soleimani, a new tweet by the US President suggests more ominous actions on the horizon.
Art
Required Reading
This week, art's role in the creation of Asian American identity, the best and worst of graphic identities in 2019, gentrification and how it dehumanizes us, directory of culturally specific US museums created by people of color, and more.