History
Tracing the Lives of 10 Jewish Children Who Escaped Nazi-occupied Territories
My family's lore holds that my great-uncle was one of the 10,000 children who were sent to Britain to be fostered wherever they could.
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Art
An Artist and Former Sex Worker Wants to Decolonize Gender in Indonesia
Pertamina, a multidisciplinary transgender artist, went from working the streets to working Asian art shows to reclaim Indonesia's pre-colonial acceptance of non-binary genders.
News
After 4,300 Books Were Banned in Kuwait, an Artist Installs a Cemetery of Banned Books
Mohammad Sharaf installed 200 headstones for the censored titles in a plot of land beside Kuwait’s Annual Book Fair.
Art
A Pop-up Reading of Black Poetry at the Brooklyn Museum
This weekend, the Brooklyn Museum will host a Pop-up Poetry event featuring readings by three Cave Canem fellows.
News
Nan Goldin and Drug Policy Activists Protest NY Governor Cuomo’s Inaction
Protesters marched outside the governor's office near Grand Central Station, carrying a mock overdose prevention center to urge approval of the five pilot prevention centers promised during Cuomo's election campaign.
Announcement
The Nomad/9 MFA: Field-Based, Regenerative and Relevant
Urgent times call for radical creativity.
Books
Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic
Artist Nancy Campbell's book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.
Art
How the Museum Is Like a Prison
The Walls Turned Sideways exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston implicates the museum as existing in the same landscape of money and power as the prison.
Interview
Carl Pope Returns from His Hiatus with His Largest Installation Ever
After four years away from the art scene the artist returns with work that maps the visual language of contemporary blackness through 108 letterpress posters in the most important installation in the US right now.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the library of King Ashurbanipal, the new Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, geographies of fear in antiquity, China's Uighurs, alt-right New York, and more.
Books
Dorothea Lasky's Provocative Poems about Motherhood
The poems in Milk combine snarky sense of humor with an edge of semi-bitter self-consciousness.
Art
Melissa Meyer’s Urban Vision
Meyer has turned Pollock’s all-over painting on its head.