News
Far-Right Criticism Shuts Down Brazil's Largest Ever Queer Art Exhibition
On Sunday, Santander Cultural unilaterally shut down Queermuseum after conservative critics accused it of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.
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Decoding Techno-Orientalism in Science Fiction
The AC Institute is hosting a series of screenings that will examine the pervasive exoticization of Asian people and cultures in science fiction.
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Dutch Art Museum Chooses to Change Its Colonialist Name
The Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam is named for a 17th-century naval officer who worked for both the Dutch West India and the Dutch East India companies.
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Near & Dear, an Exhibition Curated by Carrie Moyer
On view at the EFA Project Space, September 15–October 28, 2017.
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A Cuban Artist, Anthropologist, and Cosmologist’s Journey to West Africa
The exhibition showcases the unique space the Cuban artist José Bedia occupies: concurrently artist, anthropologist, and religious practitioner.
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An Ominous Score for Antarctica's Collapsing Glaciers
In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica's Larsen C ice shelf.
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Giant Cuttlefish Make Sweet Love in New York's City Hall Park
Katja Novitskova has unleashed enlarged and playfully juxtaposed scientific images throughout the Lower Manhattan park.
Comics
Even Beethoven Had Haters
No one is immune to the sting of criticism.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Basquiat is remembered by those close to him, art school bs, US political comics today, how a Houston museum prepared for a hurricane, what artists should do with waterlogged belongings, and more.
Art
Stanley Twardowicz, a Neglected Minor Master
The unsung Abstract Expressionist wanted his paintings to show none of the effort he put into making them.
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Rosalyn Drexler Does Not Look Back
Since the 1960s, Drexler has continued to make powerful art and to go her own way.
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A President’s River of Lies
The Paris Accord has been declared irrelevant.