Interview
A Filmmaker Investigates the Racially Charged Murder His Great-Grandfather Committed
Travis Wilkerson speaks about his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, which traces his great-grandfather's killing of an unarmed African-American man.
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Comics
An Artist and a Baby
The world changes quickly and so does your perspective of it.
Art
Environmentalists Proclaim Great Pacific Garbage Patch a Country, Design National Identity
Can an island of garbage become a nation? The founders of "Trash Isles" are working to realize their vision and raise awareness about this environmental scourge.
Announcement
apexart's Open Call Invites Proposals for a Thematic Group Exhibition in NYC
No topics are off limits, no ideas are too controversial.
Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
News
Explore the World's Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today
The database's 260,000 catalogue entries, the fruits of 30 years of research, range from modernist synagogues to ancient Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
Art
A Six-Acre Civic Commons Is Coming to Detroit’s North End
The design duo Akoaki and the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm have opened the first phase of an ambitious project known as the Detroit Cultivator.
Books
The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.
Film
Agnès Varda and JR Take a Trippy, Twee Road Trip
Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other 88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in the French provinces.
Performance
What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
Art
Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art
SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.
Art
A Museum Devoted to Immigrant Histories Opens in Boyle Heights
The Boyle Heights Museum opens this weekend with an exhibition focused on the history of Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression.