Film
A Century’s Worth of Movies About Cross-Dressing and Drag
The series Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen at the Anthology Film Archives highlights drag’s ubiquity across time, place, and social milieu.
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Art
In Minnesota, Listening to Native Perspectives on Memorializing the Dakota War
The outcry over Sam Durant's sculpture at the Walker Art Center has provoked reflections on past memorials for the US–Dakota War, and how Dakota Nation voices continue to be ignored.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the artist Khadija Saye went missing in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, two teens were rescued after spending three days in the Paris catacombs, and a previously unknown Jackson Pollock was found in an Arizona attic.
Performance
Before the Trump-Inspired Julius Caesar, There Was Orson Welles’s Anti-Fascist Staging
The current, controversial Shakespeare in the Park show owes a more than superficial debt to Welles’s landmark production.
In Brief
In a Historic First, Australia Agrees to Return Ainu Remains to Japan
It would be the first repatriation of remains to the indigenous people by a foreign country.
News
Artists Stage Protest Performances in Trump Tower
Some two dozen performers took over the building's public garden on June 14 to protest President Trump's plan to eliminate the NEA.
Art
Rediscover Desolation Center, a Series of ’80s Punk Happenings in the Mojave Desert
From the Desert to the Sea, opening on June 17 at Cornelius Projects, illuminates this overlooked but fertile period in LA's musical and artistic history.
Art
The Postwar Japanese Home as a Laboratory for Architectural Experimentation
An expansive and enthralling exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre pulls work from more than 40 architects.
Art
If Hollywood Actors Tell Refugees’ Stories, Will We Finally Listen?
In Candice Breitz’s video installation, six men and women recount their stories, which are then reinterpreted by Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore.
Art
The Power of Color in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Paintings
New portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, on view at the New Museum, reveal how the artist uses color to launch into the mind and psychology of her fictional characters.
Art
The North’s Role in Supplying the South with Confederate Monuments
Confederate monuments would not exist in such large numbers without mass production, which, in the wake of the Civil War, took place more often in the North than in the South.
Comics
Drawing Inspiration from the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
It was an oasis in Trump's America.