Art
How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda
In Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is exhibiting 70 examples of the monstrous in the Middle Ages.
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Required Reading
This week, did Donald Glover swipe parts of his number one tune, Godwin's Law has been suspended, the Black Holocaust Museum has reopened, vintage Chicago restaurant postcards, bees that use flower petals to make nests, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, did Donald Glover swipe parts of his number one tune, Godwin's Law has been suspended, the Black Holocaust Museum has reopened, vintage Chicago restaurant postcards, bees that use flower petals to make nests, and more.
Books
Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
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Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
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One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
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One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
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Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
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Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
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The Chains of Intolerance
They downplayed the cages for migrant children, comparing their chain-link fences to those surrounding “playgrounds all over America.”
Music
The Precision Rap of Blocboy JB
Blocboy JB’s new mixtape, Simi, is the most meticulous demonstration of formal rigor hip-hop fans will likely hear all year.
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A Graphic Novel Asks, Why Art?
Eleanor Davis’s graphic novel Why Art? reflects an unadulterated belief in the power of art.