Art
A Photographic Conversation About Family, Absence, and What Ifs
In their ongoing collaboration Fade Like a Sigh, photographers Zora J Murff and Rana Young evoke the mysteries of memory and motivation.
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Art
In One Artist's Body, the Legacies of Continental Trauma
Carlos Martiel continues his gripping, often devastating explorations of bodies marked by history, culture, and place with a performance at Y Gallery.
History
Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World
Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
Art
The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Now in its 25th year, the New School-affiliated institution is supporting increasingly essential and timely art.
Comics
The Bad Behavior of Men in Comics
In recent weeks, the behavior of bad men — or the bad behavior of regular men — has begun to be exposed.
Books
Photographers Document the Mutilation of Redwood Trees by Poachers
For Live Burls: Poaching the Redwoods, photographers Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre documented the rampant theft of redwood burls in California.
Art
Documenting the Many Contradictions of Contemporary China
The Guggenheim's series Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017, curated by Ai Weiwei and Wang Fen, gathers documentaries by Chinese artists and filmmakers.
Books
Glowing Photographs of East and West Divided by the Iron Curtain
East/West features Harry Gruyaert's photographs of Moscow, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the 1980s, each saturated with Kodachrome colors.
News
Curator Called Before Senate Hearing as Brazil's Right-Wing Groups Target the Arts
The curator of an exhibition on queer art, which was subsequently shut down, is being investigated by the senate for harming children with art.
Art
A Pop-Up Alterations Shop Run by an Artist Considers the Cost of Labor
On Black Friday, textile artist and activist Carole Frances Lung will examine unseen networks of labor and capital in the garment industry.
In Brief
From Benefit to Blockbuster, a Kerry James Marshall Painting's Dramatic Flip
A Kerry James Marshall work originally donated to a museum's benefit auction sold at Christie's for a record-setting price.
Art
A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint
History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.