Art
Required Reading
This week, Lewis Hine's child labor images, assessing Artforum's #MeToo fallout, New York's most "toxic" museum boards, the rise of the right on YouTube, dissecting an Instragram influencer, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Podcast
The Largely Unknown History of Blackface in Canada
Here's how Toronto's Gardiner Museum is using a figurine in its collection to peel back the layers of violently racialized imagery in Canada.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Sam Gilliam, art as an asset class, John Waters at Mary Oliver's bookshop, Ai Weiwei on Hong Kong protest, the radical black history of techno music.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Mapplethorpe's not-so-original images, indigo in ancient Peru, White Girl Art bingo, Western Civilization and white nationalism, a real life Snow White, and more.
Podcast
Shary Boyle's Exploration of the Fantastic and Political Lives of Clay
As ceramic becomes a more common material in contemporary art, artists like Shary Boyle are challenging the history of a medium that has too often been associated with class and prestige.
Art
Required Reading
This week, world's largest intact Ancient mosaic, Gordon Parks's 1961 images of a favela dweller, critic Inga Saffron roasts Stu Bykofsky, huge cache of 1980s noise and post-punk cassettes go online, spaceflight as colonialism, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the white gaze and photos from the US/Mexico border, the market for a branded artist, a weird micro-trend, Jonas Wood's straight white dude problem, Washington state's prison abolitionist movement, and more.
Podcast
Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum
Leading contemporary artist Kent Monkman discusses how museums have influenced his life and his art, and what he is doing to help change them to tell a fuller picture of Canadian history.
Art
Required Reading
This week, "Pavilion Le Corbusier" reopens in Zurich, more critics of color, genocide scholars rebuke the Holocaust Museum, a list of the concentration camps, and more.
News
Children's Drawings from US/Mexico Border Reveal a World of Cages
During a recent visit to US border facilities, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics was given three drawings by child immigrants.
Art
#UnwantedIvanka Pokes Fun at White House Nepotism
Ivanka Trump doesn't see an issue butting into conversations with world leaders. I'd say this was embarrassing but we're way beyond that at this point.
Art
#UnwantedIvanka Pokes Fun at White House Nepotism
Ivanka Trump doesn't see an issue butting into conversations with world leaders. I'd say this was embarrassing but we're way beyond that at this point.