Books
Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
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Art
Eleanor Ray’s Sacred Spaces
There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray’s paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
Art
What Is “Outsider” in Unthinkable Times?
Art’s uplifting power is unmistakably real; today, the works of the most original autodidacts feel more compelling than ever.
Books
An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing
Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.
Art
Bill Brandt’s British Reality Show
Brandt’s photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.
Art
The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism
When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.
News
New Museum Staff Launches Campaign to Unionize, Urging "Critical Changes"
Staffers want to return to the goals of the museum's founder Marcia Tucker, who hoped it would function as “a collaborative, self-critical, and ‘transparent’ organizational model.” They say the museum has hired a union-busting consulting firm to quell their efforts.
Film
A Chronicler of Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Blurs Fact and Fiction
At the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival, audiences will get to see different sides of Sergei Loznitsa, who examines the past, the present, and where they intersect.
Books
Bill Cunningham’s Posthumous Memoir Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect
In the beloved fashion photographer's posthumous memoir, we get a peek into his origin story.
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Interview
Salvator Mundi’s Mysterious Journey to the Gulf [UPDATED]
The painting’s voyage, from the record-breaking Christie’s auction to the mysterious postponing of its unveiling, reflects deep regional ideological and geopolitical rifts — but the debate has hardly played out in the Arabic-language media.
In Brief
Pérez Art Museum Miami Offers Free Admission and Part-Time Work to Furloughed Workers
The initiative will last until the government shutdown — which is now in its third week — is over.
News
Russian Artists Convicted in French Court for Setting Fire to Bank of France in Performance
After a dramatic court hearing, the pair were convicted for dangerous destruction of property on Thursday. Alongside prison time, they must pay nearly $25,000 in damages to the Bank of France.