News
US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World
The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.
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Books
An Experimental Book Tests Our Ability to Perceive Multiple Mediums Simultaneously
Chilean electronic-music composer Nicolas Jaar's project feels like a cross between an art experience and solving a book of logic puzzles.
News
Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast's "Racist" Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery's Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as "racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown."
Film
A Czech Filmmaker Who Portrayed Eastern Bloc Life Through Women's Eyes
At Doclisboa, a comprehensive look at Vera Chytilová's incisive critiques of gender, family, and love.
Art
Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
Announcement
The Central Role Student Exhibitions Play in VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program
Students take part in five installations, learning best practices in professional exhibition.
Comics
Stieglitz in the Streets, O'Keeffe in the Sheets
Sometimes we all have a cross to bear.
Art
A Santa Fe Community Battles to End a Colonialist Reenactment
#AbolishTheEntrada is a demand to end the Entrada, an annual costumed reenactment of the colonial reconquest of Santa Fe by General Don Diego de Vargas in 1692.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Eero Saarinen in Michigan, rare Tiffany glass in LA, the biggest question artists face today, LGBTQ history of St. Louis, Eminem takes down President Trump in rap, and more.
Books
Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing
For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.
Art
The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto
The key to Miyamoto’s work is repetition that never becomes routine, no matter how mechanical the process might seem.
Art
Future Dread
Twitter, in the hands of Trump and the Republicans, is a way of postulating speculative fictions, — the worries and woes of possible future perfects.