Art
An Artist Provides a Stage for Us to Make Political Decisions
Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s objects provide a stage, and the viewer is the actor who must perform the uprising.
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Film
How a Jeopardy! Champ's Play to Become a Feminist Public Intellectual Crashed
The new documentary Who is Arthur Chu? is a cautionary tale about the dangers of getting too online.
Opinion
Forensic Architecture's Documentary on Kanders Doesn’t Absolve the Whitney Museum
A documentary at the 79th Whitney Biennial may detail horrors funded by the Whitney’s own chairperson Warren Kanders, but don’t applaud the museum for the self-criticism.
Art
Discover the Origins of LA’s Oldest Children’s Theater Company
From May 28 to August 3, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be in residence at Oxy Arts on York, a brand-new community-based arts space established by Occidental College.
Art
An Artist's Take on the Symbiotic Relationship of Art and Nature
Matthew Barney: Redoubt is the latest exhibition from a controversial artist. In a talk at the Morgan Library and Museum this week, he will explain himself.
Film
The Fraudulent Health Startup that Got an Acclaimed Documentarian to Make Its Ads
How can we reconcile Errol Morris's stated mission of pursuing the truth with him helping to promote Theranos?
Books
The Art School Roots of Pop Music's Legends
In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.
Art
The Designer Who Wanted to Liberate People from Gendered Clothing
Looking back on the work and philosophy of Rudi Gernreich, who broke norms and made waves in the 1960s and ’70s.
Art
Play-Testing a New Card Game for Radical World Building
The Afrofuturist Podcast is inviting a game designer to unveil his custom-designed deck of cards, which will prompt and inspire the audience to imagine diverse scenarios.
Art
A Forgotten History of Dutch Women Artists, Remembered
A talk at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will discuss its only painting by an early modern Dutch woman, Margareta Haverman.
Books
Two Books Take on the Vast Ecological and Social Consequences of Climate Change
A Year Without a Winter looks to the past to imagine how people might grapple with the climate upheavals of the future, while A Moving Border explores how rising temperatures have changed the geography of Europe.
Art
Has El Museo del Barrio Betrayed Its Mission?
There is a particular way to think about the conflict around El Museo del Barrio that hasn’t yet been broached by the art press: the shift in its priorities may be generational.