In Brief
US Postal Service Ordered to Pay Artist $3.5M For Copyright Infringement
A case of mistaken artwork has cost the US Postal Service millions of dollars.
Hrag Vartanian
Art
Required Reading
This week, did Donald Glover swipe parts of his number one tune, Godwin's Law has been suspended, the Black Holocaust Museum has reopened, vintage Chicago restaurant postcards, bees that use flower petals to make nests, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, did Donald Glover swipe parts of his number one tune, Godwin's Law has been suspended, the Black Holocaust Museum has reopened, vintage Chicago restaurant postcards, bees that use flower petals to make nests, and more.
Community
A View from the Easel
This week, artist studios in Maine, Nova Scotia, Wisconsin, Portugal, and Serbia.
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Required Reading
This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
In Brief
Melania Trump Walks into Hot Water at the Border with "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" Jacket
What's intentional and what's unconscious in the Trump administration? No one knows.
Books
This French Bookstore Has Fun Judging Books by Their Covers
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a well-placed cover really ups your social media game.
Interview
Dictator Selfies and a Superhero Trailer: Glimpses of the New Propaganda from Trump's Recent Summits
Propaganda continues to evolve and the latest version, used by the Trump administration during the Singapore meeting, looks to corporate communications for pointers.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
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The Elusive Index of Relationships Between Everyone
An exhibition divided into eight chapters, Chlöe Bass offers us the residue of social exchange for the audience to examine.
Test 2018 posts
The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children's Detention Camp
President Trump's new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.
Art
Rituals of Liberation Intended to Unsettle at the Whitney Museum
Last night's performance at the Whitney Museum reminded the audience that they are all on unceded indigenous land, while exploring the implication of settler colonialism.