Art
The Breathtakingly Subtle Moments in Kyoto Animation's Films
No terrorist attack could diminish the deeply personal work of Kyoto Animation, a firm that has always championed the sophisticated storytelling of its women animators.
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Art Influences One's Sense of Belonging, Says Research by Yale Med Students
A new report suggests that art can play an important role in welcoming women and minority groups into spaces of higher education that have historically excluded them.
Art
David Hammons Returns to LA With Wicked Tricks and Subtle Jabs
Imagining his first impression of the city he once called home, I suspect Hammons would have said: “You’ve let yourself go.” Conversely, he could have easily said, “I see you haven’t changed.”
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A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past
In Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, ten artists explore the implications of colonialism's violent legacy.
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Mediating the Consequences of a Former Filipino Dictator
Pio Abad’s exhibition, Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite offers sculptures that monumentalize the political consequences of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship in the Philippines.
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.
Music
Jamila Woods and Her Ancestral Spirits
Woods’s new album Legacy! Legacy! is framed by the presence of a larger community — the enacted community of choir singing and an imagined community of Black artists.
Art
An Unlikely Marriage of Science and Art
In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
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A Curator's Perspective on Davide Sorrenti's Fashion Photography
The photographer captured the currents of hip hop, skater, grunge, and rave culture that flourished in downtown Manhattan in the 1990s.
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Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse
The Centre Pompidou's Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
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The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art
While many of Julia Kuhl's paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.
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Our Love for Fetishes
Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.