In Brief

The Spy Who Taught Me: Bulgaria Accuses Julia Kristeva of Cold War Espionage

The Franco-Bulgarian scholar, philosopher, and psychoanalyst has been accused of being a spy for the Bulgarian government in the early 1970s.

Announcement

SculptureCenter Presents 74 million million million tons, on View Through July 30

The exhibition's artists push against narratives put forth by corporate and government industries by producing specific knowledge and corroborative objects around unmapped historical and political events.

Comics

Stopping for Art and Conversation Along the High Line

I went to see Agora, a group exhibition installed at the High Line, and made my way through the crush of people.

Art

An Imagined Feminist Art School in the Amazon Jungle

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.

Film

How and Why Art Became "Degenerate" in Nazi Germany

Narrated in Italian by actor Toni Servillo and directed by Claudio Poli, the film somewhat drowsily recounts the madness of the Nazi’s quest to first sanitize, and then steal the art of Europe.

Comics

We're Living in the Golden Age of Television

But who has the time (and energy) to watch all these supposedly superb shows?

Art

Required Reading

This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.

Art

Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things

Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.

Art

An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement

Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.

Art

The Devotional Act of Touching a Brush to Canvas

Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.

Art

A-Tisket A-Tasket, I Lost My Money Basket

I was in my limo to the White House, and on the way I dropped it.

Art

Breaking Down Boundaries Through Poetry and Photography

In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco's poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler's photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.