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Major Actors and Directors Join Campaign to “Arrest the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor”
Breonna Taylor would have turned 27 on June 5. Jordan Peele, Ava DuVernay, and others joined the thousands who are calling out for justice in Taylor's case.
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Film
Reclaiming the Legend of Bruce Lee
The new ESPN documentary Be Water seeks to both reassert Lee's legacy and humanize him.
Interview
Meet LA’s Art Community: Hailey Loman Is Building an Oral History Collection
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
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Queer Art Workers Reflect: Raja Feather Kelly Wants Sustainability to Become “Actual Practice”
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
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Williamsburg’s Wave of Gentrification Becomes More Visible During the Pandemic
With his photo book In Time of Plague, Brian Rose documents a previous devastation made more visible by a more present one.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera Is Honoring Anti-colonial Practices Through Design
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Eva Yaa Asantewaa Supports Dancers Speaking Out Against a Capitalist System
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soraya Nadia McDonald on the neck as a point of subjugation and control, Nicole J. Caruth on Black birth, Saidiya Hartman on the end of White Supremacy, John Edwin Mason on protest images, Hari Kunzu on Masha Gessen's new book, and more.
Film
The Delirium of Female Desire
Across Josephine Decker's work and in her new film about Shirley Jackson, Decker wants us to ask what right she, or anyone, has to make another’s story her own.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
"With vast art mausoleums now shuttered, we artists increasingly occupy the same virtual space, deepening our exchanges by sharing readings, conversations, and Zoom studio visits.”
Art
Ann Greene Kelly Estranges the Familiar
In Kelly’s sculptures, manmade objects morph into new or composite forms that seem to verge on organic.
Books
A Writer’s Portrait of Louise Bourgeois
Now, Now Louison is a book that will trouble purists who believe in strict categories, such as biography, art criticism, and novel.