Art
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This week we focus on race, with Kara Walker talking about art not answers, a timeline of Confederate monuments, how South Koreans dealt with a symbol of Japanese oppression, symbols of white supremacy, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Art
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This week, the Calibri typeface's controversies, finding lost languages, the missing Native American bodies of the Effigy Mounds National Monument, Malcolm Gladwell hates McDonald's fries, and more.
Opinion
If Donald Trump Were an Art Critic…
Do you really want to know what Trump has to say about art?
Opinion
How to Destroy a Brutalist Masterpiece Without Demolishing It
The newly renovated Orange County Government Center is a special type of building that makes you want to scream.
Art
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This week, bus seat ridicule, rewatching The Apprentice, Dunkirk’s colonialism problem, the White House as West Wing, and the future of fake news.
Art
What Does It Mean to Make Art in the South Asian Diaspora?
This summer exhibition at the Asia Society in New York explores artists of the South Asian diaspora and the ideas and issues that unify their work.
Satire
Beast Jesus Predicted Trump
Little did we know it was a prophesy.
Art
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This week, discussing ICA Boston's new Schutz show, the White House gets a new "reality" star, competitive table setting, trouble with Air India's art collection, and more.
Art
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This week, we're image-heavy as we explore the first modernist house in New York City, Google Streetview goes inside the International Space Station, fish farms from the sky, a Beyoncé wax figure that looks like Lindsay Lohan, and more.
Art
The Alchemical World of a Performance Artist Who Plays with Fire
Miao Jiaxin — best known for a work that invited strangers to Airbnb a cage in his apartment — lit a room up with fire at the Just Situations performance festival.
Art
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This week, the Venice Biennale's photo problem, the importance of Jimmie Durham's claim to Cherokee heritage, the politics of fire, the state of queerness, dissecting Munch's "The Scream," and more.
Art
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This week, the winners of Dronestagram, the Utah teapot, font culture wars, Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, and more.