Art
A Video Game Takes You Cross-Country into the Origins of American Folklore
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.
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Art
Textile Art Threads Through a Showcase of Southern California MFA Grads
The annual SoCal MFA show brings together graduating MFA students from all over Southern California, and this year's exhibition is full of fiber art.
Art
Issues of Intimacy, Distance, and Disavowal in Writing About Deana Lawson’s Work
The story of this essay, its rejection by the artist and her gallery, and by Aperture and Frieze raise critical questions about the relationship between living artists and critical mechanisms for evaluating their work.
Announcement
The Mayapple Center Presents “The Art of Protest,” an Art Activism Workshop
This one-day workshop on June 16 previews a ten-day residential workshop on art as political resistance planned for June 2019 at Sarah Lawrence College.
Film
Cute Cartoon Animals Cope with Office Drudgery in Aggretsuko
The new Netflix series, based on characters developed by Hello Kitty creator Sanrio, subverts the fantastical expectations of most anime narratives.
In Brief
UK Labour Leader Says He ‘Would Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece’ If Elected
If returned, the sculptures could be reunited after two centuries and settle a longstanding legal feud between Greece and the UK.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the best of the architecture biennial in Venice, Kerry James Marshall on Charles White, the problematic "Glendale Biennial," telling the story of the Chinatown Art Brigade, and more.
Books
For the Love of Leonardo
A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.
Film
An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others
We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.
Art
Terry Winters Draws the Shape of Space
In his best drawings, everything is keyed to the way that Winters attains difference while doing the same thing over and over.
Art
This Black Cloud Called Trump
Fifteen months ago, Trump was just beginning to embrace power; now he’s well into the dismantling of our democracy.
Art
When the Spirits Guide the Hand
An intriguing exhibition focuses on art whose makers were compelled to create it by forces greater — and far beyond — themselves.