Art
Letting Go of Our Obsession with Memorials
Over the past 50 years we have encountered the incentive to value every material trace of the past more and more, like we are a society with collective hoarding anxiety.
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Unholy Piñatas Modeled After Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”
The Los Angeles-based artist Roberto Benavidez has made wild, larger-than-life representations from the Hieronymus Bosch painting in the form of piñatas.
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The Origins of Indigenous Objects and the Distances They Travel
On Thursday, August 31, artist Duane Linklater will read an open letter addressed to the Metropolitan Museum about a James Bay Cree hood in its collection.
In Brief
Do Americans Want Confederate Statues Removed?
A new poll suggests that a majority of people in the US want the statues removed, but others have found that popular opinion favors keeping them in place.
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Tracing the Lives of Women in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the lives of women in the Middle Ages through their representation in illuminated manuscripts.
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Horsing Around With Philadelphia's Urban Cowboys
Mohamed Bourouissa's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation centers on his time with the Fletcher Street Urban Riders Club.
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Comics
A Shower of Ideas
I won't forget. I won't forget.
Books
Drawings that Trace the Contours of Thought
Renee Gladman's drawings in Prose Architectures resemble not-quite-legible script, registering somewhere on the visual spectrum between image and language.
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.
Art
Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."