Art
Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."
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Art
Parenting and Labor in the Art World: A Call to Arms
To argue for basic human rights seems to be only acceptable when spoken of by artists in museum galleries, but not by the art workers whose labor underpins such projects.
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In Brief
Ship in Which Hundreds of Migrants Died Will Be Shown at the Venice Biennale
Controversial artist Christoph Büchel's project will memorialize the European migrant crisis by displaying the shipwreck responsible for one of the worst losses of life on the Mediterranean in recent memory.
Art
An Important Modern Artwork Gains New Relevance for India
As India prepares for general elections this year, M.F. Husain's "Lightning" reminds us of the country's tremendous political history.
Film
Two Emily Dickinson Biopics Present Radically Different Visions of Her Life
Just a few years ago, A Quiet Passion was lauded for its portrayal of Dickinson. Now, Wild Nights with Emily offers a new take on the poet.
Art
Black American Cinema of the ’90s Was Filled with Promise
Revisiting the movies made by Black American filmmakers, which could only really be fully appreciated decades later.
Art
Required Reading
This week, treehouses as starter homes, Amy Sherald on fame, photography's role in ending slavery, autism and literary studies, stolen ruby slippers, and more.
Books
Poems About Unending Displacement and Mobility
Magdalena Zurawski seeks to store and preserve such experiences in The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
Art
Minor Master or Master of the Minor?
One reason Joe Brainard made so many small works was to convey that modesty and ambition were not mutually exclusive.
Art
Photographing the Bloody Cost of Resistance
Between 1968 and 1981, when he turned 13, Khiang H. Hei was at or near the epicenter of several catastrophic historical events reverberating across Southeast Asia.
News
Student Organizations Occupy the Whitney's Lobby to Demand the Ousting of Warren Kanders
The students drew parallels and connections between the museum's board of trustee's vice chair and other board members at their universities