Film
How Terrence Malick Captures an Ascendant State of Being in Film
The comprehensive retrospective Moments of Grace at the Museum of the Moving Image demonstrates the director's idiosyncratic techniques for depicting the cosmic.
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Announcement
Center for Craft Opens National Craft Innovation Hub
Located in Asheville, North Carolina, this first-of-its-kind destination will expand the center’s reach and enhance its efforts in building a future for craft.
Opinion
New Non-Binary Emojis Fall Short of Their Good Intentions
While the announcement might be a step in the right direction, it inadvertently reinforces even more gender stereotypes, limiting nonbinary individuals to greyish androgynous figures defined primarily by their haircuts.
In Brief
Egypt Officially Criminalizes Climbing the Pyramids
Under new articles in the country’s antiquities protection law, climbing monuments and smuggling antiquities out of the country will result in high fines and jail sentences.
Art
The Longing of the Diaspora in the Digital Era
In The Curved Body of a Pixel, artist Kimberly Acebo Arteche posits that despite its speed and pervasive presence, technology ultimately fails to narrow wide experiential gaps created by geographic distance.
Books
A Former Cam Model Reveals How Desire Can Be Both Liberating and Confining
In her new memoir Camgirl, screenwriter Isa Mazzei joins the long tradition of women who use the personal to explore and deconstruct sex and culture.
Announcement
Island Tales: Taiwan and Australia Opens at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
This exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Taipei and Perth sister-city relationship and includes a series of events centered on Taiwan-Australia exchanges.
Film
Living With the Ghosts of Migration
In her debut feature Atlantics, Mati Diop renders stories of migration through a feminist lens, offering a meditation on who gets to forge their own path.
Art
Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood's Surreal Abstractions
The exhibition Illuminated Earth asks audiences to consider not only Hood’s dynamic and commanding murals as the thought-provoking pieces they are, but also how artistic legacies are made and remade over time.
News
Week in Review: Jeff Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips," Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees
Also, a Hyperallergic reporter spent a night with Yayoi Kusama's biggest fans, Marciano Art Foundation employees protest the abrupt closure of the institution, and more.
News
First Keith Haring Mural to Go to Auction Fetches $3.8M at Bonhams
Also, Umberto Boccioni’s "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1972) fetched $16.2M, and Ed Ruscha's "Hurting the Word Radio #2" (1964) sold for an unbelievable $52.5M.
Art
Turner Prize Nominees Consider the Injustices Brought About by Borders
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani have been shortlisted for the coveted prize.