Art
How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?
If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself.
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Required Reading
This week, becoming "fake news," Guatemalan artisans fight back, Larissa Sansour's film controversy, Chinese pro-military film propaganda, the trolls of Vermont, and more.
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Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
Books
The Earth as a Dump and Refuge
The Astropastorals, a new collection of poetry by Douglas Crase, brings together two decades of material in 18 pages.
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Four Uncompromising Finnish Women Artists
There are no portraits of men or depictions of happy couples in this exhibition at Scandinavia House.
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Twenty-Six Thoughts on Robert Rauschenberg
MoMA's retrospective runs from stench and perfection to perfection and putrefaction.
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Peering Down Trump’s Lie Hole
This mouth debases and shames our country.
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A Participatory Studio of Utopic Creativity
At the Kunsthal Rotterdam, David Bade and Tirzo Martha create sculptural explorations of still-life paintings.
Music
Rappers Rap Big Statements: Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Playboi Carti, Logic
Each artist's new album inhabits its own idiosyncratic sonic universe.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan
An artist couple talks about paintings with a punch line and a street full of rats.
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How to Create a Butterfly
In her exhibition at Five Myles, Roya Amigh demonstrates how simple materials can metamorphose into storytelling.
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A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Channels the Pain of LA's 1992 Uprising
On Tuesday at the California African American Museum, artist Patrisse Khan-Cullors performed a funerary procession for those lost in the violence 25 years ago, invoking the entire history of systemic violence in the US.