Art
An Artist Examines Immigration Through Traces Left Behind
Jessica Segall’s work displays the physical vestiges of asylum-seekers’ journeys, but with no real evidence of the individual.
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Searching for a City’s Spirit at the Lahore Biennale
Amid works by international artists and local projects focused on other Pakistani cities, I kept wondering where is Lahore?
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What Are the New York Public Library Lions Reading? The Great Gatsby and Beloved
As part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, NYPL has outfitted the marble lions that flank its main branch entrance with their very own copies of two books chosen from librarians' 125 favorite titles.
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Revisiting Photography’s First Road Trip
Ten Turkish artists follow daguerreotypist Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet’s 180-year-old journey through the Eastern Mediterranean.
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A Trove of Historic and Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online
Skimming through the titles — like Recetas que escribió mi madre con amor para sus hijas ("Recipes my mom wrote with love for her daughters") — gives one a sense of the intimate nature of these objects, digitized by the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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.
Music
The Electronic Symphonies of Video Game Scores
I haven’t played the game Death Stranding, but I know one thing: The score, composed by Ludvig Forssell for prepared piano, synthesizer, and found percussion, is beautiful.
Books
Eileen Myles Listens for the "Pulse Outside" Their Home
Myles’s poems walk and shift with all their pieces sloshing this way and that, and invite the reader for the ride.
Film
A Model Who Shunned Celebrity for Marxism
The Disappearance of My Mother honors the staunch conviction and introversion of Benedetta Barzini, who shunned Warhol celebrity for political solidarity, and in her later years, Spartan solitude.
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Painting Clings On
Painting’s funeral was canceled at the last minute.
Art
Taking Appropriation Too Far
To manipulate the historical record, I would think, is to abandon the search for truth.
Art
Once More Into the Culture Wars
To assert one’s inner life in a time of reactionary politics is a radical act.