Film
A Dark Comedy Finds Society’s Problems Reflected in the Art World
Swedish director Ruben Östlund's satire The Square follows the misadventures of the chief curator of a fictional contemporary art museum.
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Art
The Quiet Radicalism and Dry Humor of Early Gilbert & George
The duo's early work reveals how they opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art.
Art
The Myths and Failures of Modern Khmer Architecture
Albert Samreth examines the fading legacy of New Khmer Architecture, which wanted to represent recently independent Cambodia as authentically Khmer, but also legibly modern.
Art
Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories
Positioning black women — artists, actresses, characters, and her own family — as mentors and muses, and as heroic figures in a lineage of their own, Thomas overrides oppressive narratives.
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Consider the Future of Museums with L’Internationale
L’Internationale Dialogues are dedicated to interrogating, debating, and positing new futures for the museum’s place in the world.
Art
An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World
Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World revisits the archaeology of Knossos through a contemporary video installation.
Art
In Atlanta, Considering Which Confederate Monuments Should Go
From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
Art
Required Reading
This week, considering Etel Adnan, MVRDV’s "fake" Binhai library, the aesthetics of Empire, the end of Twitter's utopian ideals, mapmakers and horror vacui, and more.
Art
An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement
Hayv Kahraman, a half-Kurdish Iraqi and naturalized Swede living in the US, is no stranger to identity politics.
Music
Reveling in the Beauty of Emo-Rap
Critics overstate the extent to which Uzi and other new rappers have absorbed the influence of emo, which lately seems to have become a buzzword for vulnerability and interiority.
Art
When a Painter Enacts a Ritual
There is a ceremonial aspect to the way Alison Hall makes these works, from the sanding of the plaster to the painting of the surface, to the drawing of the dots, to whatever she does next.
Art
When Hate Consumes the Brain
The great satirists — Goya, Daumier, Guston — understood that caricature is a complicated mix of anger, humor, and empathy.